Like, obviously around here you don’t subscribe to a subreddit, were not on reddit.

What about referring to the Original Poster as OP?

What about etiquette like marking edited posts and comments with “Edit: added words or explanations of edits made”?

  • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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    68 months ago

    Its way to late to fix, but instance => community and subreddit => subcommunities would have kept some of the nomenclature similar.

    And instances being a community seems to be how beehaw and others want to work anyway.

    • @lseif@sopuli.xyz
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      68 months ago

      ‘instance’ is already a term used by other federated platforms though. it wouldnt be any less confusing

      • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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        68 months ago

        Well, yeah, like I said, way to late to change. Programmers are notoriously bad at naming things, but once named, its hard to change.

        It might have made the “Which instance do I join?” question a bit more intuitive and self-answerable if it was instead:

        Q: Which community do I join? A: Oh, obvious, the one that seems to match my IRL community/values.

        (If its not obvious, I am also a programmer, so any opinions on usability and human behaviour are also completely detached from reality 😄)