Another point to this, I equate the modern fediverse with all the old message boards. Message boards are still around but it used to be an integral part of web

Another point to this, I equate the modern fediverse with all the old message boards. Message boards are still around but it used to be an integral part of web culture. They essentially took over from dial up BBS. But now community boards have moved to cloud services like Discord. The self-hosted boards are still around in the shape of federated ActivityPub instances. It makes a lot more sense than hosting an isolated island of PunBB or vBulletin. I just hope more communities host their own small localized ActivityPub instance, using AP relays to create a vibrant fediverse.