I’m admittedly quite an amateur and don’t have the best understanding of the fediverse; I have a Mastodon account and a Misskey account, and was planning on making a Pleroma account as well. However, it seems like they’re all connected; was it redundant to join Mastodon and Misskey? And in that case, should I not make a Pleroma? Or is there any benefit to having one of each?
Technically there is no schism, but people on many Mastodon servers are a bit trigger happy with instance bans when those instances federate with other instances that are deemed ban worthy. And Pleroma instance operators typically are not so trigger happy and thus even if their instance is well moderated they get banned for not banning others preemptively.
That said, some of the instances in question really do deserve to be defederated, so both sides have some reasonable arguments…
some instances also block pleroma instances that use soapbox fe. their reason is because the dev is terf so users must also be terf