Post #1903717

I think you can look at this in a gatekeeping way and a functional way. I'm personally anti-gatekeeping, so there's that. What I mean with functional is: why do you care about whether something is part of the fediverse? Obviously because you want to talk to it. You want to be able to reach it from places like Mastodon. I see no benefit in worrying whether something is based on ActivityPub or merely supports it as one of several protocols. It remains reachable either way, unless your own platform restricts you like in Lemmy's case. That said, I do see your point regarding optionality. I think instances that choose not to use the fediverse plugin of their software aren't part of the fediverse. But that's no reason to call the software itself not a part of it. Just means users need to put extra effort into choosing an instance.