One line of thinking that intrigues me, which you might be interested in as it relates even more to Mbin: at what point do we differentiate between where the content is located, vs. how we access it?

So like PieFed exists - I am talk to you from it right now - but if I were to make a post, let’s say to !tenforward@lemmy.world, then am I posting on “Lemmy”? There is next to no content that is exclusively located “on” an instance running PieFed itself, so PieFed is my vehicle to access Lemmy content, in a way?

Then again, a better way would be to say that it was PieFed content, shared “with” the Lemmy instance where the community is moderated (via the ActivityPub protocol), and from there shared around the world, to whatever people are running to receive it - Mbin, Kbin, Sublinks, Tesseract, etc.

And all of that is still just within the Threadiverse, but how to say what Mbin does? Does Mbin access “Mastodon content” as well as “Lemmy content”, or rather “microblog content on the Fediverse” as well as “threaded content on the Fediverse”?

I am not even sure what name the “microblog content on the Fediverse” goes by, b/c people usually say just “Fediverse”, but also things like PixelFed (Instagram replacement) and Friendica (Facebook replacement) are part of the Fediverse too, so if “threaded content on the Fediverse” becomes “Threadiverse”, then “microblog content on the Fediverse” is going to have to be renamed to something other than Fediverse too?

Since in the last six months Mbin doubled the number of comments made monthly, the distinction is becoming more noticeable - yet it is still 10k posts and 75k comments, vs. 9.4 million posts and 16.7 million comments from something running the software “Lemmy” (https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats).

Then too, if Lemmy.World switched over to use Sublinks (as they hinted at several months ago…), would most of this content (especially since ~80% of the Lemmy userbase is located on that server) switch from being “Lemmy” to now “Sublinks”? Setting aside the question of “what even is Lemmy, anyway?”, my question to you is: what even is Mbin, anyway? Does it cross-browse “Mastodon and Lemmy content”, or is it like a new, hybrid thing, b/c it doesn’t just browse e.g. Mastodon content, but also can host its own microblog-formatted content too, shared with servers that run Mastodon as its software, as well as its own forum-based content shared with servers that run Lemmy (which can replace themselves with Sublinks) and PieFed.

Whew, this is getting complex!? No wonder people just say “Fediverse” and leave it at that!:-P