I get why @adam might be skeptical about the #fediverse.
As far as I can tell, it is many voices screaming into the void, with the lowest common denominator winning out.
Reddit-style "forum-style" social media is superior because it has persistence of topics.
However, it also attracts idiots who quickly mob the idiotic and deny the important.
They are threatened by it, so they dominate it.
Well, keep in mind that #fediverse is more of the communication tech than the user experience, and it's perfectly possible to build solid, persistence-of-topics systems on top of it.
I would say that many of the ways that it's currently being used do amount to the many voiced screaming into the void that you describe, as so many just want to replicate #Twitter's void screaming over here.
I hope that better applications are built and mature in fediverse as other users ask for better experiences.
We shall see.
@volkris @adam
Good point. It may be that the Lemmy model will win out.
Then again, most people seem to prefer scrollers for their #voidscreaming.