Great comment. I agree with everything you said.

As you mentioned, every common type of community forum has it’s own “quirks” (I didn’t want to say pros and cons or something like that) which make it suitable for a certain type of interaction.

Some are better for very large discussions joined by thousands of people, others are good for small groups talking about very specialized topics. Every style naturally promotes one type of interaction over the others.

Which is why I really like the federation system.

It allows people to create very different interfaces with different strengths and user experiences which still can share content between each other, even if the features of one interface isn’t fully compatible with the content of another.

Overall, I feel like the experience on the fediverse, while familiar enough and easy to settle into, is very different than whatever systems everyone have been used to for decades. I think the reason for this is, as I said in the previous paragraph, that it gives developers a platform with already available content through other instances to test their interactive website ideas on, and provide the users with a whole lot of user experiences to choose from, while essentially keeping track of the same communities through it all.