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”.