The longer I spend on the Fediverse, the more I learn about an entirely new corner of the wider open internet. I've drifted over in multiple accounts over the years from Lemmy, Mbin, Kbin, Mastodon .... I've even tried Bluesky (although I know it's not fully accepted as part of the open fediverse) ... and recently have been learning about and diving into Piefed.

And in learning about all of them, I keep discovering that there are dozens more projects that are growing everywhere in the fediverse ... Pixelfed, Matrix, Friendica, Peertube, Misskey ... and many more!

It's a hopeful learning experience because I often feel like any one of these platforms feels small and not that many users ... but when you add them all up, they number to about 12 - 13 million accounts with billions of status updates ... and because it is the fediverse, all of them are able to connect to each other! ... it might not seem like much compared to corporate social media but this is what the start of the early social media internet looked like and felt like 20 years ago.

I'm looking forward to what the fediverse will look like in the years to come