Eugene of Mastodon has signed an NDA with Facebook.

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

No, they mean like “kilocelsius” or “millicelsius”, which makes them prefixes

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