S.ToriAm I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
Desert Square Gardener@Torithom there's a proper way? According to who?
@desertsquare good question. There seem to be shared norms of behaviour that people pick up over time, but maybe the Fediverse is still developing little pockets of norms?
Random Canuck 🍁😷 💉 VE3ZDN@Torithom @desertsquare I think there are some common norms, but there are also some that are unique to certain instances (another term for a Mastodon server). So things done on the forkiverse.com might differ from my instance, CoSocial.ca. For example, we’re a co-op where all members pay annual dues to cover operating costs. We have annual meetings, a book club, etc. Truly a community.
@RandomCanuck that's cool, what is the main thing that unites the community? Is it the idea of federated social media itself?