@On that last bit..
"If as a developer you call your people users, you just lost the first battle of a great solution design."
-- Some dude on the fediverse 😅
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. Well, there are a couple of potential negative connotations to the word user. First, "user" was frequently used in the 90's for the customers that purchased some software products.
Then there is also the connotation of "drug" users.
Maybe the Fediverse is better thought of as groups of participants in communities that may or may not overlap.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://gotosocial.social/users/unattributed/statuses/01KJS6Y2745X60Z62GQ62MN9HC on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)