I’ve seen people explain that particular, shall we say, use of punctuation, on Reddit, but I never saw anybody earnestly do it. I think you’ve got to drop at least one level lower on the cultural tactfulness to get there.
We’ve got the culture and to put it simply a place to go to. The barrier for new entry is just that we are all, put simply, nerds with our communities focused around that. The fediverse’s main problem overall is honestly just that the majority of the population are corporatists whether they know it or not.
Only time I ever saw a brick as a kid was when one came through the window of the trailer, had a note on it that read ‘cut yo grass’. That’s how they do it in the mobile homeowners association. Credit to a comedian by the name of Dusty Slay since that isn’t my joke.
Having been around chickens I wouldn’t say semi-cannabalistic, they’ll totally eat each other if one of them dies even if there’s plenty of their regular feed lying around.