@Regezi This could have one or several out of many reasons.

One, people on certain projects prefer to interact with people on the same or similar projects anyway, also due to overarching cultures. For example Misskey and Sharkey which have "UwU kawaii desu" written all over them while Mastodon doesn't.

Two, similarly, a refusal to let Mastodon users connect because this increases Mastodon's pressure on non-Mastodon projects to abandon their own culture in favour of Mastodon's.

Three, vice versa, Mastodon and its users rejecting the culture of non-Mastodon projects whenever it differs from Mastodon's. Many Mastodon users want everything that is "un-Mastodon-like" banned all across the whole Fediverse because it disturbs them, be it posts over 500 characters, be it quotes, be it "quote-tweets", be it text formatting in any way. However, all this stuff is perfectly normal and absolutely part of the culture everywhere outside of Mastodon.

So on the one hand, you have Mastodon users blocking everyone who does stuff that's alien to Mastodon upon first strike, depriving them of exposure and range on Mastodon. Plus everyone who ever talks about the Fediverse without only talking about Mastodon. On the other hand, you have non-Mastodon users who refuse to post to Mastodon users in the first place in order to avoid this kind of drama. And at least some projects actually allow you to select whom to post to, and yes, including Hubzilla.

Four, for the reasons mentioned above, some non-Mastodon users never even expose their accounts/channels to Mastodon, so nobody on Mastodon knows them. Some Hubzilla and (streams) users go another step further: If they're on (streams), they turn ActivityPub off altogether to keep themselves away from all the drama on Mastodon, and if they're on Hubzilla, they intentionally don't turn it on in the first place. This shields them from Mastodon practically entirely.

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