On Reddit it’s call Subreddits, will it one day be called Sublemmies?

  • Matt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Since this is the “fediverse”, it makes much more sense to use general terms than things specific to a platform. There’s already /kbin, and there may be other link aggregator software platforms that appear in the future, and having a standardised set of vocabulary that all platforms can use makes it much easier for everyone to understand.

    /kbin calls them magazines and there’s sometimes been some confusion over the term and Lemmy having communities, even though they are the same thing. All the microblogging platforms on the fediverse for example just have “posts” and “boosts”, there is no specific term for them like “tweets” on Twitter (there was the “toot” thing for Mastodon for a while, but it was quickly rolled back and hasn’t been official for several years).

    Don’t forget that when you post on Lemmy, you’re not posting “to Lemmy”, you’re posting to the wider “fediverse”.

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      1 year ago

      Kbin magazines combine a ActivityPub Group ( what a Lemmy calls a “community”) with a hashtag search, so they are a bit different than what’s on Lemmy.

      I just don’t know that anyone’s actually using the hashtag feed on kbin.

      • Rune@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        A bit of back story on this: the Mastodon creator named them toots as a bit for celebrity attention, then, later, he renamed them to posts to be taken seriously. Now people on many different platforms call their posts toots, but post and status are equally valid (the status name comes from the api specification)