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Mastodon is the "corporate-oriented" Fediverse implementation. It is unfortunate, but Gargron has done a great job in marketing his own project to all sorts of commercial organizations. Other Fediverse software implementations are mostly targeted towards hobbyist (and non-"mainstream") communities and personal uses, which makes them less "appealing" to corporations (Mozilla is one of them, however they would like to claim otherwise).
Just look at the recent Mastodon updates, especially 4.0 and the ones leading up to 4.0. All of them are trying to make Mastodon more Twitter like and more uniform (so that instances are less distinguishable from each other). That is Gargron's way of marketing, and he has succeeded in doing so. I as a long-time Fediverse user absolutely hate all of this development, but that is the unfortunate side effect of wanting to go mainstream.
I understand all of that, but Mozilla is an organization that knows its way around open source and understands open ecosystems. The idea of multiple implementations of open standards forming an open ecosystem is a very obvious parallel to the browser space that is Mozilla's main focus. That's why it's particularly disappointing they chose the leading implementation instead of using their position to improve diversity and awareness of other projects.
I agree that Mozilla could be of better help to other Fediverse programs. Like they should use something that would be easy for them to change over their blog posts or other long-form items (Friendica or Hubzilla). Mastodon is fine and all, but aside from the stuff already stated it would be nice to see them be a "safe" starting point for people. I could see them easily making use of Pixelfed or even PeerTube (PeerTube especially could make good use of having big names to get normies curious enough to try). Though if they want to stick with microblog stuff, I have liked the more interesting layouts that Pleroma and Misskey/Foundkey can have. I can only guess they are picking Mastodon because they think it is less confusing to people that have been hearing about it because of the Twitter stuff. Even if they don't try the other options any time soon. They could maybe help or release extensions that help with Fediverse related stuff. If they do extensions then it doesn't add bloat to Firefox for those that don't use or care about it. Would like to avoid another Pocket situation. lol
No. It's not.
Friendica has different Identities with only one login. You can drive forum or newsaccounts (joining an rss-feed for example, an bring it to fediverse) and so on.
It allows you, to do short messages and long formated text with subject. Good for publishing and discussion along.