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!

  • kate
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    33 months ago

    do they have another name for upvotes too?

    • Andrew
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      73 months ago

      Yeah - if you don’t like a post you ‘reduce’ it, and if you do then you ‘thicken’ it.

      Only kidding: they use ‘favourites’

      • DarkThoughts
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        33 months ago

        There’s also “boosts”, sort of like an extra upvote but also a “favorite” kinda thingy.

          • DarkThoughts
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            13 months ago

            A favorite is like your standard upvote. A boost is like a “retweet” in the micro blogging sense but can also be used like an extra upvote for especially useful comments / posts / threads. Boosts will also appear within your profile, so you can sort of use them as a “save” function too, if you feel you want to come back to them.

            • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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              13 months ago

              Yea so the point is that your followers don’t automatically see your upvotes but your followers will see what you boost (repost)? I guess that makes sense.