I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less... y'know, reddity?

And also, it's much more intuitive.

Sublemminals? (or Sublemmynals)

Instances also need better names.

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.

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.

Commies

I feel like if the short version isn't "sub" then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn't own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That's what it is in my mind now.

2 m's makes it look better imo

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.

Did we just witness the birth of viral content in this bin?

I wholeheartedly agree with this one. It's also still semi funny referring to them as basically trashcans. But I think as a new user it is just way more streamlined and sensible than calling them "magazines". When I read that first I just could think of like paper magazines and thought they'd be some sort of editorial content, which is highly misleading. Calling them "bins" just makes way more sense and sort of adds to the brand of the platform.

nice and simple. this works for me..

Bin there, read that.

Yeah I mean it's short and kind of right there in your face... +1 for bins

How about mags?

I think I prefer "zines" as a shortened form of "magazines."
"Clips" sounds more like a post within a magazine.

Oh man, that'd annoy so many people that are pedantic, including me lmao.

I'm going "gazis."

Surprisingly philosophical

Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)

Indeed

I saw red vent in comms

When someone says "sub", I think "dom"

Or sandwich, depends on my mood.

Yeah, in the lemmy source code they are called "Communities"; in the kbin source code they are called "Magazines"; I think Mastodon uses the ActivityPub lexicon and also uses "Groups" in it's source code. I perfer "Communities" because that is how the "Groups" are being used.

no

oof, id rather call them "comms" or just "cs"(cees)

The "commies" like the comunists? I suppose that does not work

nerd drama the best drama. :-)

Agreed. Communities make sense and is easy to remember.

Didn't Google have Circles?

I like this one.

Yes! Your post gives me hope there are other fans of the hack frauds on here.

ah Nice! that's a pretty clear explanation, thanks 👍

@Piatro @CallMeIshmael In my heart, I still toot.

Lemmy is four years old, I think there are names for these things and we should probably learn them.

We are travelers in a land that already had people, maybe see what they call it before declaring it New Amsterdam.

I don't know, Reddit and Lemmy differ from common social media platforms (I wouldn't really call Reddit style forums social media anyway) in that they are structured around different topics/categories and threads and in that way are closer to earlier newsgroups, bbs's, forums and such. So the main concepts aren't really that new and weird, we have had subforums, topics, groups, channels and such for decades now.

part of why it’s confusing is that we don’t have defined names for these things.

But we do: Communities.

You find that term in the UI, in user documentation, and the /c/ part of the URL also refers to that.

Calling it anything else, especially unrelated to /c/, will only make it harder and more confusing for new people to join.

Lemmings.

I think it'd be more fun to just call us Lemurs

Some of us are

community+lemmies -> commies, sounds pretty natural to me

I think just kbin refers to them as magazines, and (currently at least) Lemmy seems to be the more popular platform, calling them communities.

Neither is great tbh

The problem is that every "magazine" or "community" or whatever you want to call them (each one using a different name is also a bit of an issue) is part of their own decentralized network. Yes, you might be able to read them from other services, but it still causes a lot of fragmentation. For example when I look into something akin to a news sub for international news, I find worldnews@lemmy.ml as well as news@beehaw.org. Both basically do the same thing topically, but both have different submitted content, different users, and oddly in this case even the same owner.

This now begs the question for me as a user: Which one do I subscribe to if I want to stay informed? An article on one side could be submitted or gain traction when it does not on the other. But subbing to both could lead to a lot of duplicate articles being fed to me.

I think this is a huge issue in the whole design philosophy of the fediverse that will hamper the growth of those services. Deciding where to make an account might be something a new user gets around to, but being then confronted by this is very quickly going to turn away the absolute majority of potential users. There needs to be at least a little bit centralization to form major default communities that at least start as a gathering hub for new people. If there's issues with them then people can still create alternatives if the user numbers are high enough, but in its current form I'd have to decide between several places that are essentially the same thing.

My first kbin ELI5!

As for kbin.social being put next to the right of the title for this thread, I'm not sure. I think that might just be part of kbin's UI showing where we are viewing the thread from?

It seems that if kbin federates a post that doesn't have a link or image and just points to itself, it fills in (kbin.social) as the link pointer, when you view it on kbin. It's a bit confusing at first, should probably be replaced by something that indicates it's a federated "self"-post.

Oh of course that all makes perfect sense now….