Hello! Welcome to the Kentucky-Ohio-Indiana area Burning Man & regional burner community node in the Fediverse, an open-source, community run series of interconnected social networks. This node is open to anyone, but is primarily targeted at people in the local area.
Registrations require approval by an Admin, but this is only to prevent the system from being overwhelmed with spam registrations. Your approval should happen within a day or so, but if something seems wrong email koiburners.org{at}gmail{dot}com with questions.
Make sure to check your spam folders for the registration emails!! Friendica has a slightly kludgy registration process so logging in for the first time can be a bit confusing, but things get much easier once you're over that hurdle.
At the time of registration, and for providing communications between the user account and their contacts, the user has to provide a display name (pen name), an username (nickname) and a working email address. The names will be accessible on the profile page of the account by any visitor of the page, even if other profile details are not displayed. The email address will only be used to send the user notifications about interactions, but wont be visibly displayed. The listing of an account in the node's user directory or the global user directory is optional and can be controlled in the user settings, it is not necessary for communication.
This data is required for communication and is passed on to the nodes of the communication partners and is stored there. Users can enter additional private data that may be transmitted to the communication partners accounts.
At any point in time a logged in user can export their account data from the account settings. If the user wants to delete their account they can do so at https://social.koiburners.org:11443/settings/removeme. The deletion of the account will be permanent. Deletion of the data will also be requested from the nodes of the communication partners.