I've heard it a few times recently, then saw something posted in i think the autism instance? Dunno, not sure which it was, but this popped into my head and thought it illustrated it neatly.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Unrelated but I just wanted to say thanks for giving me the word ‘instance’. Been struggling to find a word besides ‘subreddit’ 😖

I’m a fucking idiot: community is not a hard word lmao

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I, too, am an idiot. Community never crossed my mind.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Community and Instance actually have a hard meaning here. Communities are the equivalent of subreddits, while instances are the equivalent of reddits. Reddit only had the one instance of course.

I wonder if mastodon has communities. Or is there a more twitter thing they do?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I think mastodon is more akin to Twitter, but I can’t really say as I haven’t used it. Thanks for that clarification though, it is a pretty important distinction.