From reading the article I think the Fediverse - whatever it eventually is - is not dead but became fulfilled, at least for the target audience it could reach.

From reading the article I think the Fediverse - whatever it eventually is - is not dead but became fulfilled, at least for the target audience it could reach. And this goal couldn't have been that everyone hosts servers/instances that are all globally interconnected - but that they are capable to do so in the first place. People just want a good protocol easy setup, good apps/UX, standards that everyone knows. The "idea" doesn't matter. It could have been just as well IRC/XMPP. TCP/IP people didn't have grand ideas about society on the network.