So I agree with the overall sentiment, but I feel like the reason I dislike "microblogging", which is to say Mastodon, Threads, Twitter, etc is highlighted as a positive in the first post.

something that signals “I am more than just a content creation machine for a corporation!”

It could be a status symbol for all the right reasons.

I care about talking to people, not a person. The Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/Reddit style of conversation (forum?) is just a better way to get people together to talk about things. You don't have to be someone special with a "status symbol", you don't have to be "content creation machine" for anyone.

I say this because while conceptually I'm glad that the whole Fediverse and ActivityPub can talk to each other, we're just not having the same conversation.