Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

  • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
    77·
    2 years ago

    They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.

      • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
        401·
        2 years ago

        I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less… y’know, reddity?

        And also, it’s much more intuitive.

        • bnaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          2 years ago

          Personally that term makes me a bit uneasy. To me it sounds too grandiose and organized just for something that might just be some random people shitposting or chatting about their interests. And actually having tight knit communities can easily lead to all kinds of negative effects, group think, hierarchies and drama.

          Of course some subreddits, forums, lemmy communities etc can be actual communities but just as a personal preference I don’t like the idea of calling them that default.

          • BigUwU@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            2 years ago

            I don’t like the term community because it’s difficult to understand the hierarchy. Is an instance a part of a community? Or vice versa?

            What do you think of subinstance?

            • bnaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              To me subinstance sounds more like a technical term, but I guess people would just call them subs anyway. I think that’s a problem in general with deriving anything from “instance”.

              I guess community does a good job at being a more human centric term. You have the technical side of things, servers and software (instances) and on those you have the actual user facing parts (communities) so in that way it’s kinda fitting.

              Further overthinking about the terminology I just realised that Lemmy calls joining communities “subscribing” and Reddit calls it “joining”, while I would naturally think it would be more fitting the other way around. Naming things is hard.

        • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I think “sub” is what people are going to call them reguardless. It is just internet language at this point, a subdivision of a community (by community I mean lemmy as a whole) is called a sub. Weather it’s a subreddit or sublemmy. I’m not saying bring reddit with us, I am just saying the internet can take the term “sub” with it and use it elsewhere.

          • SpacePirate@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Because technically, one server can host multiple instances. Instances are containerized— literally an instance of lemmy.

              • SpacePirate@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Great question! Yes; hosting providers will undoubtedly exist, and some power users may want to host more than one instance on a single server to cater to slightly different audiences.

                In modern server infrastructure, there’s no need to maintain the overhead of a fully virtualized operating system just to run a different instance. Containerization is the modern best practice, and with Amazon EKS or Azure Kubernetes Service, the containers just live directly in the cloud on a PaaS backend.

                • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  I’m sorry, I don’t really understand, what would be the advantage of this over hosting another community?

                  Can you give me an example of this catering where the server would want different rules per instance?

                  Sorry, i’m not trying to be rude I just genuinely don’t get it.

            • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              But that’s a provider/customer relationship, on the fediverse it isn’t.

              • unfazedbeaver@lemmy.oneEnglish
                4·
                2 years ago

                Agree on a technical level, but in terms of the average netizen being able to visualize the relationship, “providers” makes it much easier

                • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
                  3·
                  2 years ago

                  I don’t think we should try to visualize something that’s not there just because it’s (supposedly) easier for the average netizen.

              • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
                3·
                2 years ago

                For now. Commercial servers are possible, especially if communities become multi-instance in the future.

                Every mature decentralized service calls them providers. Phone providers, ISPs, email providers, etc. I guess usenet just calls them “news servers”, though.

              • Ferk@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                It’s provider/consumer (not customer, something being a “provider” doesn’t necessarily mean they are selling stuff).

                We are consumers, we consume the content that the instances provide, as content providers.

    • 9488fcea02a9English
      1·
      2 years ago

      new to lemmy…

      if there different “linux” communities on different instances? does this mean i have to subscribe to all of them? is there a way to see all content from communities called “linux” from different instances?

      or does each “linux” community simply fight for critical mass to become the “main” linux community on lemmy?

      thanks

      • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

          • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            That does sound like a good idea, kind of like Reddit’s old multireddit function.

      • Mane25@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • redawlEnglish
    62·
    2 years ago

    +1 for Communities, since that’s what they are called in the official UI and documentation

  • open_world@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.

    • Senseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word

    • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.

      • Seraph089English
        61·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • JohannesOliver@beehaw.orgEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          I think using Communities is respectful to the people that were already doing community on Lemmy before the exodus.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Its prefect, I think the “trade name” for that is “sub” anyways and that’s what they will be called no matter what they are suposed to be called.

    • ug01x@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      I think this is correct. In my headcannon I have started to call flowing through the different sites exploring the lemmyverse, which just feels right.

  • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
    40·
    2 years ago

    On Lemmy, they are “communities”.

    On Kbin, they are “magazines”. I am told that “magazine” is a pun in Polish (Kbin’s maintainer is Polish).

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    34·
    2 years ago

    just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)

  • _thayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 years ago

    The use of ‘comm’ and ‘comms’ as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy’s url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.

    Like ‘sub’ and ‘subs’, they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.

    • tebicatEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      isn’t that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.

      • guildz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    251·
    2 years ago

    oh snap! you know Lemmy has hit the big time when its a topic of discussion between SOs!

  • araquen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”