The #FediVerse difference in a nutshell, I think: relatable interruptions and problems in life.
We don't have service interruptions because some nutter decided to spend millions of quid on some snake oil or playing at politics in a foreign country.
We have service interruptions because the sysop happened to be in the middle of cooking dinner. Or was in IKEA. (-:
And the rest of the world does not fall apart.
It's the BBS days all over again, where we actually know our #sysops as people, which isn't a bad thing.