@Kingsley Uyi Idehen @Alex Oberhauser :verified_o: @Helge Heß @Free Software Foundation @Chris Trottier @Mastodon @Fediverse News Generic servers would mean that all instances of the #Fediverse are basically the same project with the same features and the same capabilities.

This would mean that either the Fediverse lost lots of features (long-form blogging, audio streaming, video streaming, connections beyond #ActivityPub etc.) because they would have to be sacrificed to achieve total unification, or people coming over from Twitter would have to learn to wrangle an absolute feature monster that can do everything. Not to mention the monstrous mobile app that'd be necessary to harness all that power on the small touch screen of a smartphone.

In other words: You'd either have to cut Hubzilla down to Mastodon's capabilities or inflate #Mastodon to be able to do everything that #Hubzilla can do plus everything that #Funkwhale can do plus everything that #PeerTube can do plus everything that #BookWyrm can do plus everything that...

Don't forget that the Fediverse can do more than unformatted microblogging.

One-size-fits-all clients for all projects from micro.blog to Hubzilla to #Owncast are an illusion, too. What should they be able to do? Basic Twitter-like microblogging? That'd make all features of more advanced projects inaccessible. Everything? Then you may only want to do some microblogging, but you'd have to do that with an app whose user interface, all menus put together, is bigger than a barn door and mostly useless because the project you've joined doesn't support 99% of it.