One thing I do enjoy about Mastodon is the expanded character limit. 500 characters seems to be the perfect amount to express a thought while preventing a full essay about a topic. It's a very nice middle ground.
@leauxra @jlward I don't know if you can 'do it wrong' once you stick to the guidelines for your instance and are generally respectful, label things that are not safe for work and use content warnings.
As I'm new, I feel that by remembering there were people here before me and not shouting at everyone what should be done or how it should be done, would go a long way to making it nicer for those who were here from the beginning.
Just my idea though, not preaching