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!
I agree, Kbin’s naming conventions are off-putting to me. Now you have FB’s claim on ‘threads’ too, which just adds to the confusion even more…
Iirc from my time on kbin, posts are for the “microblog” part, i.e. the part that interacts with mastodon.
Oh. If thats the case, Mbin seems like it’s laid out really smart. It just needs to use a kind of branded name for mastodon. Kind of like how “twitter” had “tweets”, and “X” has “racist bullshit”. Well maybe Mastodon could have “Snouts”. Or someone smarter can think of a better word for Mastodon noises.
But whatever Mastodon settles on, thats what Mbin should call them. “Magazines” should just be “Communities”. And “Threads” should just be “Posts”.
And what we know as “Posts” would be called “Snouts”.
Mastodon has “toots”
…toots? Like farts with a cute name?
Twitter had a tweeting bird. Mastodon has a, well, tooting mastodon.
And Xitter fittingly has X-cretements.
No, like an elephant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
The thing is this: This may or may not apply to just Mastodon, but microblogging in the fediverse as a whole. There may be other such sites popping up that use activitypub in the same micro blogging manner, but using a different software and names than Mastodon. Mbin could still be compatible to those platforms too, embedding them in the same way, which would make calling the posts “toots” even more confusing and straight up misleading.
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 …
If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …
Don’t leave us hanging like that!
They call them ‘reduces’
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???
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.
Well you were right. That definitely rubs the wrong way lol.
Thank you!
do they have another name for upvotes too?
Yeah - if you don’t like a post you ‘reduce’ it, and if you do then you ‘thicken’ it.
Only kidding: they use ‘favourites’
