I wish the fediverse would just stick to one set of jargon, and everybody uses the same terms to mean the same thing. Even “instances” should just be called “servers”. That’s all it is. This server talks to that servers, and information is exchanged.

So, if I understand this right, “magazines” on Mbin are the same as “communities” on Lemmy, are the same as subreddits on reddit. Three names to mean the same thing.

And a “Thread” is just a post. Like I’m making a post right now on Lemmy. If I did this on Mbin it would be called a “Thread”.

But then I see there’s also “comments” which is self explanitory (I hope…)

And there’s also “Posts”. But if Threads are posts, then what are Posts?

QUIT FUCKING AROUND WITH TERMS, FEDIVERSE! LETS ALL JUST KEEP THINGS SIMPLE!!!

…I keep thinking I have things figured out, until someone says “yeah, but have you tried this?” and then I look into it, and I’m confused again. Arg!

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m guessing it’s an artifact of them supporting both platforms like Lemmy (who’s users make Threads and Comments in Magazines) and platforms like Mastodon (who’s users make Posts and Replies in Microblogs).

    If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …

      Don’t leave us hanging like that!

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Ew.

          WHO thought that was the right term??? Like was some guy using a yellow notepad and putting the bad ideas on the right, and the good ideas on the left, and “reduces” is the one that they landed on??? How bad were the other options???

          • Chozo@fedia.io
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            3 months ago

            The original Kbin dev is Polish, so English is likely a second language for him. Also, it’s still very early in development, so a lot of terminology put in use are likely placeholders until something more natural-sounding could be finalized.

            • navordar@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Also, it is inspired by a Polish service, Wykop which developed its specific language

          • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Yeah - if you don’t like a post you ‘reduce’ it, and if you do then you ‘thicken’ it.

            Only kidding: they use ‘favourites’

            • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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              3 months ago

              There’s also “boosts”, sort of like an extra upvote but also a “favorite” kinda thingy.

                • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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                  3 months ago

                  A favorite is like your standard upvote. A boost is like a “retweet” in the micro blogging sense but can also be used like an extra upvote for especially useful comments / posts / threads. Boosts will also appear within your profile, so you can sort of use them as a “save” function too, if you feel you want to come back to them.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’ve said it before and caught flak but I’ll say it again: I really, truly hate the naming conventions Kbin introduced. “Reduces” is maybe the worst offender but “magazines” too is a completely nonsensical name for communities.

          • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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            3 months ago

            I mean, you are free to open a discussion on Github, if you feel that strongly about it. The whole point of mbin was to be more community centric, so feedback is very much asked for.