I'm quite new to Mastodon, but an old hand at social media. Like, I was doing it before we had the term "social media."
What are some rules of netiquette here? Or "tootiquette"?
I don't want to be the conversational elephant who tramples over all the fences on his way to the watering hole.
Over on the now-musky-scented birdsite I tend to write off the top of my head. Reviews, recipes, dad-jokes, pop-philosophy, venting, self-promotion, and more.
OTOH, many of the Mastodon servers appear to be striving to be topical and focused. Hopefully THIS one (mastodon.online) is a bit more free-form, because that fits me better.
But I could be wrong.
@howardtayler So, I look at this a little differently... maybe I'm not up-to-date on moderation on some of the other servers, but:
I think of different servers as less a collection of topical content, and more a collection of topical people.
You are not a one-dimensional being, there's more to you than one particular topic or genre. Your timeline is probably to have people from a variety of backgrounds and professions and perspectives. This will be the case no matter which server your account lives on.
Whichever server you're on, your posts are appearing in its local timeline. This is your contribution to the texture of the server. But it's that way because you are who you are, not because of a particular topic.
If I think of it like that, it helps me think of my whole contribution to a server, not just one slice of my life as a contribution to the server. To me, this is a healthier way to think about the whole platform and my relationship with it.
Howard Tayler
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