Eugene of Mastodon has signed an NDA with Facebook.

Is this true? Where can I read more about it?

It’s not made by google

It’s decentralized, not federated. They are slightly different concepts

Matrix is not part of the fediverse. I don’t know where people got this idea, but I keep seeing it mentioned on Lemmy. It’s just a decentralized messaging software

No, lots of instances with communities that, if they so chose, can mirror each other. Very different

Lol of course they did

I love the idea! In the meantime, I think mods of similar communities should talk to each other and decide to merge their communities into one, perhaps on a server that’s not lemmy.world. I don’t remember which one, but I’ve seen that happening