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@@ -44,4 +44,27 @@ in talking about federated social networks. I was there, I was happy
 with it, but I'd be the first to admit that something like that wasn't
 going to help more than a tiny minority of people.
 
-Since then, things have improved. 
+Since then, things have improved. Helped also by the policy changes of a
+few centralised platforms, the number of people, and most importantly
+the variety of people on the fediverse, and specifically mastodon have
+grown. 
+The raw numbers are still low compared to the centralized platforms, so
+you're not likely to find your old school mates on it, or any other
+specific person you already know, but it's a great place to get to know
+new people that share your interests, no matter what they are.
+One day I've even stumbled on somebody who posted about soccer!
+something that in the early, nerd-biased days would have been pretty
+rare.
+
+The mastodon community also developed a set of community rules and
+expectations about moderation which helps managing the social
+interactions between instances with wildly different content rules.
+
+As for the technical part, in January 2018 the World Wide Web Consortium
+released the ActivityPub standard which, while not perfect, has given a
+big boost to interoperability between different projects.
+This was followed by the summer of activity pub, when the ecosystem
+grew significantly with the birth of many projects, often centered on
+specific usecases.
+Since the whole fediverse shares a common network effect, this enables a
+way for new, niche, projects to get a starting boost