@linos it is a good thing, for sure
Had discussions the other day on how federating SocialHub had a bunch of negative side effects. Most notably an overall shift of dev discussions to microblogging where it only increases fragmentation of the discussion, and less cohesion in the community.
Generally speaking "join the fediverse" is a bit meaningless, and we never really looked at the implications of federating. This is catching up in threadiverse efforts, but it is design after code.