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!

  • @Lost_My_MindOPEnglish
    5•12 days ago

    …toots? Like farts with a cute name?

    • DarkThoughts
      4•11 days 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.