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It says it uses ActivityPub, so yes, interoperable. Though Mastodon has its own quirks and doesn't line up neatly with the protocol.

At what baseline should contributors be writing articles or edits? Like 10th grade reading level?

I always hear people appreciate brevity and clarity, but that seems a pretty tough task for certain subjects like the aforementioned math ones.

Thanks for the recommendation. I haven't played Pokemon in over a decade, and from what I've read here that probably will not change. However, Monster Sanctuary may be worth checking out.

The show itself may be fine, but the trailer is almost pure cringe.

I heard someone say that the messages on Matrix are basically replicated on every server that is federated with another. I don't know if this is true, but that's a crazy amount of network traffic if so. I've also heard anecdotally that the protocol itself is pretty complicated.

UI/UX is incredibly important in on-boarding and retaining users.

My main problem with live chat is its ephemeral nature. So you can end up having people asking the same thing that someone else asked but the previous answer is buried/lost. Forums are good because you can index and search.

I didn't know about Rome. I may check it out. I did run Dendrite but it's still pretty intensive, but much better than Synapse.

Honestly a forum is much better than the endless stream of live chat that is basically Discord and Matrix, et al.

IRC > XMPP > Matrix > Discord.

Matrix is heavy. I ran my own instance once and it is very resource intensive (even using Dendrite) even if you have only joined a handful of rooms. XMPP chat gives most of the same things I need for chat and is much lighter but no one uses it (sadly). IRC deserves a mention for something that is rock solid and simple and will still be around after Matrix and Discord (if they ever end), however people can't post their meme pics or their emojis so it doesn't appeal to younger people.

Concerning Discord. I literally only made an account because I had classmates that made a server.

Why would you join when you can just follow the accounts that interest you on it from Lemmy or Mastodon/Pleroma/Akkoma/etc ???

Sup.

I'm not really new (was on Mastodon.social years and years ago, now self host my own instance, also have been on a different Lemmy instance for about a year).

I've had an account on Reddit for awhile, deleted it, then made a new one, but now thinking of deleting it again. I made an account here in case something happens with my other Lemmy account because that instance is relatively inactive. Also I'm Canadian and I think that part of my identity takes precedence over any other consideration so having a Lemmy.ca profile makes sense.