Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

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        I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less… y’know, reddity?

        And also, it’s much more intuitive.

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          Personally that term makes me a bit uneasy. To me it sounds too grandiose and organized just for something that might just be some random people shitposting or chatting about their interests. And actually having tight knit communities can easily lead to all kinds of negative effects, group think, hierarchies and drama.

          Of course some subreddits, forums, lemmy communities etc can be actual communities but just as a personal preference I don’t like the idea of calling them that default.

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            I don’t like the term community because it’s difficult to understand the hierarchy. Is an instance a part of a community? Or vice versa?

            What do you think of subinstance?

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              To me subinstance sounds more like a technical term, but I guess people would just call them subs anyway. I think that’s a problem in general with deriving anything from “instance”.

              I guess community does a good job at being a more human centric term. You have the technical side of things, servers and software (instances) and on those you have the actual user facing parts (communities) so in that way it’s kinda fitting.

              Further overthinking about the terminology I just realised that Lemmy calls joining communities “subscribing” and Reddit calls it “joining”, while I would naturally think it would be more fitting the other way around. Naming things is hard.

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          I think “sub” is what people are going to call them reguardless. It is just internet language at this point, a subdivision of a community (by community I mean lemmy as a whole) is called a sub. Weather it’s a subreddit or sublemmy. I’m not saying bring reddit with us, I am just saying the internet can take the term “sub” with it and use it elsewhere.

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            a subdivision of a community (by community I mean lemmy as a whole) is called a sub

            Imagine how confusing these double definitions are for newcomers.

            • Lemmy: The software and platform, maybe also an individual user
            • instance: a server within
            • community: what OP asked for

            This language is consistent with the user interface and otherwise available documentation.

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        Instances also need better names.

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            Because technically, one server can host multiple instances. Instances are containerized— literally an instance of lemmy.

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                  I’m sorry, I don’t really understand, what would be the advantage of this over hosting another community?

                  Can you give me an example of this catering where the server would want different rules per instance?

                  Sorry, i’m not trying to be rude I just genuinely don’t get it.

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              But that’s a provider/customer relationship, on the fediverse it isn’t.

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                Agree on a technical level, but in terms of the average netizen being able to visualize the relationship, “providers” makes it much easier

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                  I don’t think we should try to visualize something that’s not there just because it’s (supposedly) easier for the average netizen.

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                For now. Commercial servers are possible, especially if communities become multi-instance in the future.

                Every mature decentralized service calls them providers. Phone providers, ISPs, email providers, etc. I guess usenet just calls them “news servers”, though.

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                It’s provider/consumer (not customer, something being a “provider” doesn’t necessarily mean they are selling stuff).

                We are consumers, we consume the content that the instances provide, as content providers.

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      new to lemmy…

      if there different “linux” communities on different instances? does this mean i have to subscribe to all of them? is there a way to see all content from communities called “linux” from different instances?

      or does each “linux” community simply fight for critical mass to become the “main” linux community on lemmy?

      thanks

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        There could be different linux communities on different instances, and to see them all you’d have to subscribe to them and sort by subscribed view. But yeah, in practice most of the time there will emerge one “main” linux community and, if it gets big enough, likely offshoot communities for different philosophies or more specificity.

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            That does sound like a good idea, kind of like Reddit’s old multireddit function.

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        I don’t dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it’s best to leave it to sort itself out organically.

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    I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.

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      Mine, too. And it’s fits the /c/… format.

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      I think this is correct. In my headcannon I have started to call flowing through the different sites exploring the lemmyverse, which just feels right.

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      Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word

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      Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.

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        It’s a nice lighthearted nod to the exodus, and also a nod to the subforums that came before Reddit. Communities may be the “official” name and I try to use it when talking to others, but they’ll always be sublemmys in my head.

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          I think using Communities is respectful to the people that were already doing community on Lemmy before the exodus.

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      That’s one way to make it harder for newcomers to understand what’s going on.

      I agree sublemmys sounds fun, but is it worth burdening newcomers with additional confusion?

      UI and documentation calls it communities, which is also a well known natural language word. Let’s keep it simple for everyone and stick to that.

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      Its prefect, I think the “trade name” for that is “sub” anyways and that’s what they will be called no matter what they are suposed to be called.

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    On Lemmy, they are “communities”.

    On Kbin, they are “magazines”. I am told that “magazine” is a pun in Polish (Kbin’s maintainer is Polish).

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    just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)

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    The use of ‘comm’ and ‘comms’ as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy’s url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.

    Like ‘sub’ and ‘subs’, they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.

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    I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”

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    I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for

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      Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.

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    oh snap! you know Lemmy has hit the big time when its a topic of discussion between SOs!

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      I’ve been talking about it with a relative, because she really enjoys “popcorn” (i.e. drama).