Those of you #NewHere and #NewtoFediverse need to know the terminology.
The Feds, Federati or Fedizens refer to the entire #fediverse, so users of Pixelfed, Kbin, Lemmy and Mastodon...etc.. are all under those terms.
On #Mastodon, the names I've heard are tooters and mastodonii, if anyone has anything better let me know.
The entirety of social media is of course, under Order Socialis which has two branches: Family Personalis and Family Parasitus. You know Family Parasitus from the various species of Corpora or Corporate entities, and of course Genus Egomet which is the TechBros and Billionaires.
Those of you reading this on Mastodon are in Family Personalis, Genus Foedoratus, species Mammut
That's one of the microblogging species on the Fediverse.
There are also photobloggers (foedoratus tabula -- #Pixelfed), and the Threadiverse (#Kbin Kbinauts, foedoratus kbinu and #Lemmy Lemmings, foedoratus lemmius) which hosts an interconnected set of forums like Reddit.
The thing about the #Fediverse is that it's a Federation of sites, that's your instances. You can post on your instance and see connected instances. Mastodon is a federation of connected microblogging sites.
You can change instances if you find yours to be too slow or incompatible socially.
Why no latin name for #Mastodon #instances in this elaborate social media taxonomy? Because they don't make a difference. They are just where you are. Think of them like towns from before we used last names.
I'm Ragnell of Witches.Live -- @ragnell @witches.live. I can see and talk to people outside of witches.live, even though I reside in witches.live and they know me as Ragnell of Witches.Live to distinguish me from other Ragnells.
There might be a @[email protected] or @[email protected] out there, after all.
I can move to a new town if my old town isn't comfortable for me. There's an option under Settings > Account to do so.
Ragnell the Mildly Unpleasant