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Nice and interesting to hear! Random thoughts:

1. Is there something here about the intersecting dynamics between platforms and communities? Like, if the needs/desires of a community lead to alternative platform choices, does that community have more of a chance of thriving in an ecosystem with less of a dominant platform and central instance? Even though the “threadiverse” is basically #lemmy + #kbin, they’re not at all dominant on the fediverse, and so most probably know about other things like mastodon etc, while how many mastodon users know about anything else?

2. I think there’s interesting questions about whether “thrediverse” platforms (those more like forums/reddit than twitter, IE, the start with conversation threads rather than following users) are a better fit on the fediverse.

For one, there’s the engagement problem. Arguably it’s easier to find people when spaces based on interests are the essential structure.

Second, I wonder if it smooths over federation issues better by “chunking” what’s seen and visible at a larger scale, that is at the community/sub-reddit/group level. I don’t actually know how true this is technically, but I would imagine that once you follow a community/magazine on lemmy/kbin, you and your instance see everything from that community, not just some arbitrary sub-sample of replies like with microblogging.

Third, given the above, it maybe allows one to be more accurate when they say “it doesn’t matter what instance you join”

Fourth … there’s a counter dynamic here which is that a community/group requires a certain threshold of activity to be compelling, which can be tough to get off of the ground. This is where /kbin is interesting as it fuses both microblogging and “threading” … which IMO is the master format for a platform ATM.