I've just "joined" the Fediverse a few days ago. I'm somewhat tech-savy I'd say. I still find a lot of it confusing.
"Most people don't conceptualize it like that; they conceptualize it like the postal service. " I think this was and still is in part true for me.
There's the term "Fediverse", which suggests that there's one continuous "universe" of things. But actually - and please correct me if I got this wrong - there's just servers connected/interlinked with other servers, which (strictly must, due to how it works) form bubbles/webs or islands of all sizes.
There are practically no postal service bubbles, because I can send mail to anyone I'd realistically wish. There are different postal service providers, but a "-verse" term would be better applied to postal service (-> "Postalverse") than to federated servers, imo.
So ideally as a noob coming from reddit or twitter, I'd like to know what the biggest bubble of connected servers is and where I can enter.
A thing I haven't figured out yet is why I can't find a decent feed feature on Mastodon. On Lemmy there are local/all filters for communities a server is federated with, if I understood this correctly. My mastodon home instance (mastodon.social) doesn't seem to have a feed, really. There's a "trending" filter, but it has very few posts - afaik just the ones I specifically subscribed to - and it doesn't differentiate between local and all federated servers.
Am I doing it wrong? :P
I'm expecting to have filters like in Lemmy, where I can just consume anything new, trending or controversial.
Cheers for the lengthy explanation!
Lol. Truth Social using Mastodon seems so ironic.