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You’re on it now, bud. It’s here, you’re in it. Welcome!
Neither Amazon nor Google are not part of the Fediverse. If you use their suites of software, you’ll be part of their non-federated, closed systems.
Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, and many, many others are Federated, but not the big corporate entities… Except Threads, stretching out from Meta’s own little digital fiefdom.
Y-Tube might’ve earned them a few cease-and-desists from Google