(but yes you are right :) )

hmm I should probably make a site with all of these instead of just buying more and more domain names.

But yeah, these are all good discussion points and questions - I want to give people the tools to add some data to the other perspectives on them

I think that the basic mode could probably work with raw ActivityPub if you make follows/followers public; I've been wanting to do some work in AP to learn it better, I'll add this to the idea list.

Seriously tho Jonathan, it's actually super nice to have you here going all through my day, ya know?

I'm also fascinated by how many people seem to join mastodon.social simply because it has "Mastodon" in the name, even though the Fediverse is much bigger than mastodon.social — or even Mastodon as a piece of software.

So I guess mastodon.social can be very important to some people while barely mattering to others.

I used to wonder, "What's the point of having separate servers if you're not really allowed to change much visually?" But I suppose the differences are more about rules, community focus, and moderation policies. In my own experience, though, I don't come across that many servers built around a very specific theme or subject.

I should probably add a very simple timeline view to make this easier to tell

This is hella interesting. Thank you!
I grabbed screenshots of the tables that looked informative.

I interact less with .social than the 'average' user but it's still the biggest source of follows, followers, and posts. I wouldn't think of muting that server.

I picked c.im because it has reasonable rules about NSFW material and chill mods and a huge character count. I admittedly don't use the local feed except by accident.

None of the special interest servers I've seen fit my personality, interests, or location. fgc.network comes closest but it's so tiny that I miss out on many of the replies to posts that I see.