Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era.
The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll get it. If you don’t like Gmail, you can switch to something else, but you don’t have to quit email entirely as a concept.
And mastodon has consistently used platform-centric thinking over interoperability since its start. You can notice how whenever gargron talks about groups, he doesn’t mention any of the current implementations and the masto team is rarely involved in FEP or interoperability conversations (other than to defend their own stance)
I did notice the lack of any mention of other fediverse group mechanisms.
Overall, you’d have to presume that Mastodon being so dominant on the fediverse is just not a good thing, this being a tiny demonstration I’d say. Though to be fair, mentioning Friendica to that journalist may have just resulted on more questions.
Just for everybody who doesn’t know what FEP mean Fediverse Enhancement Protocol and is as far as I know the only process that allows developers to directly propose something & implement it, while making it obvious to other people what they are implementing.
Proposals are discussed on SocialHub