I’ve been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.
Between Kbin and Lemmy, there’s already two choices of software platforms for Reddit-esque link aggregators that work together. In the future there may be more. I think the term should be inclusive.
Fedditor is play on redditor, a widely used term for users of the privately owned Reddit. A fedditor is a user of a Fediverse alternative.
Since ActivityPub is an underlying protocol that interfaces with the rest of the Fediverse, I think emphasizing the Fediverse aspect and the “reddit-esque” aspect is more important than the specific software platform.
People may use different terms for Kbin vs Lemmy vs future alternatives (or ones I just don’t know about), but they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of. I think if any term becomes widespread, it should be an inclusive term that fall underneath a more general term such as Fedditor.
Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can’t think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.
If we really want to get away from reddit, we could follow the standard convention when it comes to user designations. A person who uses
Facebook is called a Facebook user. A person who uses Twitter is called a Twitter user. A person who uses Android is an Android user. Reddit is somewhat unique among the most popular websites as people identify other users like they’re in a fandom rather than people who have an account on a particular website. I’m not sure if other fedditors want to even think about themselves as part of a fediverse fandom. I do think redditor was a fortuitous term for reddit to happen upon because it flows from standard convention (it sounds a lot better than reddinite, reddinese, reddan). If you start from wanting to designate a user of the Fediverse or ActivityPub protocol, I think Fedinite or Feditor are two obvious choices. I went with Fedditor with the double consonant as an homage, but I think if migration was coming from a website where everyone was just called “Forum Users”, Feditor would still be a top suggestion.
I like this idea. A term that is site-agnostic is a good idea since there are so many potential names for any given instance.
There’s also just no elegant way to turn “kbins.social” into a term that rolls off the tongue. “k-beans” and similar terms are just awkward and I can’t see them being adopted en masse.
I’ve been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.
Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can’t think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.
I’m a federal agent, thank you very much
Federers. But only if your first name is Roger.
To combine your and @gus suggestions, maybe Fedinauts?
This is it!
There are several Lemmy instances called Feddit though, so that fedditor would almost certainly be seen as referring to them.
https://feddit.de
https://feddit.it
https://feddit.dk
I’m also not a fan of using terms referring to reddit. Can’t we leave reddit in the past instead?
Someone else suggested Fedinaut and I love it.
If we really want to get away from reddit, we could follow the standard convention when it comes to user designations. A person who uses
Facebook is called a Facebook user. A person who uses Twitter is called a Twitter user. A person who uses Android is an Android user. Reddit is somewhat unique among the most popular websites as people identify other users like they’re in a fandom rather than people who have an account on a particular website. I’m not sure if other fedditors want to even think about themselves as part of a fediverse fandom. I do think redditor was a fortuitous term for reddit to happen upon because it flows from standard convention (it sounds a lot better than reddinite, reddinese, reddan). If you start from wanting to designate a user of the Fediverse or ActivityPub protocol, I think Fedinite or Feditor are two obvious choices. I went with Fedditor with the double consonant as an homage, but I think if migration was coming from a website where everyone was just called “Forum Users”, Feditor would still be a top suggestion.
Fedditor is perfect if you want to include Lemmy
I like this idea. A term that is site-agnostic is a good idea since there are so many potential names for any given instance.
There’s also just no elegant way to turn “kbins.social” into a term that rolls off the tongue. “k-beans” and similar terms are just awkward and I can’t see them being adopted en masse.