It’s a good question though why there are so few Spanish speakers here (or at least visible).

I think one reason is the large number of German users on the Internet. With around 100 million speakers, German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English.

According to the application texts, many users seem to come from various podcasts. We are also “endorsed” by one of the largest German-language subreddits on its front page (r/ich_iel). Our users have also started to watermark their memes, which occasionally attracts new users. Feddit also made it into an article in a popular IT magazine (heise).

Oh yeah totally forgot about that. It is actually pretty cool that I can share my totally legally obtained e-books from my account at example.org with bob@example.net without a public link :D

It really comes down to what kind of social media you are looking for. Pleroma and Mastodon are people focused (i.e. you follow people, not topics), while Lemmy focuses on communities/topics. Kbin is somewhere in between, you can both create post on an individual timeline and in communities, but Kbin is still relatively new.

Personally, I like Lemmy most (though Kbin might become interesting in the future). The great thing about the fediverse is that you can post with your account anywhere (with some limitation between different services) so it does not matter if you are on lemmy.ml or feddit.de or beehaw.org.

You are right! But there is a plugin for Nextcloud that allows to create and view posts like in Mastodon. (it is very underwhelming though)

https://github.com/nextcloud/social

There are many other services like Friendica, Kbin or Peertube. Maybe the following graphic gives some insight

It should be both group centered and individual centered, i.e. you can subscribe (and post to) either communities or personal timelines (e.g. Kbin or Friendica).

Nomadic identities would be pretty great too, in case your homeserver shuts down (like Hubzilla I think?).

Also it should come with a modern and sensible user interface (which all of the mentioned software lacks imo – even with skins).

Might be about the .ml Domain. Since it’s free it is often abused by malware.

The author’s remarks remind me of Hare’s syntax

Oh please not. Spare us from the C++ type-polymorphy nightmare. Traits are so much better than inheritance.

For lemmy there is https://lemmymap.feddit.de/