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!

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[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I'm guessing it's an artifact of them supporting both platforms like Lemmy (who's users make Threads and Comments in Magazines) and platforms like Mastodon (who's users make Posts and Replies in Microblogs).

If you don't like that, you're really not going to like what they call downvotes ...

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (13 children)

If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …

Don't leave us hanging like that!

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago (12 children)

They call them 'reduces'

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've said it before and caught flak but I'll say it again: I really, truly hate the naming conventions Kbin introduced. "Reduces" is maybe the worst offender but "magazines" too is a completely nonsensical name for communities.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

I mean, you are free to open a discussion on Github, if you feel that strongly about it. The whole point of mbin was to be more community centric, so feedback is very much asked for.

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