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!

  • @[email protected]English
    9•3 months ago

    Iirc from my time on kbin, posts are for the “microblog” part, i.e. the part that interacts with mastodon.

    • @Lost_My_MindOPEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      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”.

        • @Lost_My_MindOPEnglish
          5•3 months ago

          …toots? Like farts with a cute name?

          • DarkThoughts
            4•3 months ago

            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.