@sim @saintfury The GS software had/has a FAQ built in (partly written by @simsa03) ... but other documentation can exist (such as wikis and blog posts), and experienced people can point new people to them. Yet other things could be to rewrite the way we do / display things, so that federation (we're communicating with people from other instances) is visible and forefront. One example is to display full "user @ instance . tld" names as the primary handle (secondary nicks can be displayed in parentheses or angle brackets), but that's just one of many things that can be done to emphasize the differences that people need to understand when they use these networks.