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@youronlyone@c.im I agree, but I also think the fediverse deserves this reductionism because it feels very much like it itself struggles to see itself as more than a series of clones with an additional "feature" in non-profit OSS decentralisation.

The whole time there's been scope to really organically create platforms that are very distinct from the latest wave of big-social apps, and that interconnect and interoperate with each other in interesting user-driven ways. But that just hasn't happened (yet?). Instead, all of the platforms are fairly isolated and vertically siloed projects where the servers are the only first-class citizens and the users are left to "manage" all on their own the restrictions and difficulties of being stuck on servers.

And so the "feature" of federated decentralisation isn't necessarily that much to write home about. It's something, for sure, but when all of the platforms are clearly clones and the very dominant platform is an unashamedly hard twitter clone, I'm going to happily continue calling these platforms the clones they are until something new happens.

For instance, #calckey is not a twitter clone. I don't know what it resembles. It's been described as wordpress + twitter, which works. Apart from #friendica, it's the only platform I've seen trying to forge something new and richer.