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Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of "magazine" and "community"? When you're federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other.

Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.

^I'm pretty sure this is going to be impossible though, since each sides egos will likely get in the way :D^

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why? This is like going to a foreign country and demand they change their laws because you don't like them.

It's fine as they are, it doesn't take much to understand how they work, a few days of confusion won't kill anyone, having everything spoonfed to you all the time is detrimental to the mind.

[–] Usernameblankface@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is very much what this is like. Kbin and Lemmy do not have to confirm to reddit's norms. I'm glad it's different here.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why you'd be glad the same stuff has different name depending where you are accessing it from.

And it's kinda whatever, not that hard to grasp concept of magazine=community but it's a hindrance especially to newcomers. Maybe just call them magazine-community or something to avoid confusion.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is how language works. People will call them whatever they want and eventually everyone will learn these things are synonyms. There are even people calling them sublemmys even though that's nowhere in the UI of lemmy. Newcomers will be a little confused and then they'll learn and it won't matter.

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[–] Kara@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Agreed, it really isn't even too confusing to explain either, Kbin uses magazines, Lemmy uses communities, but they are basically the same thing. Kbin and Lemmy are separate platforms, and shouldn't be forced to use the same terminology just because they're compatible with each other.

[–] cutitdown@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Saying they should do something isn't a demand. To me, it'd be more akin to the EU sharing currency, various regulations, etc. It just makes things easier for those within it and tends to be mutually beneficial, but it does take same to find agreements that every member is cool with.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh man I wonder how often I can use this today https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] planetaryprotection@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Every now and then I think "Why isn't X thing standardized?! Why hasn't somebody sane come along to save us form this mess!" And then I think of that strip and realize why lol

[–] andyburke@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't even need to click the link to know what you're sharing.

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[–] danc4498@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

If we're taking a vote, I think "Magazine" is a dumb name. I saw that and had no idea what it was supposed to be.

Honestly, this specific post is the first I am realizing that "Magazine" is the equivalent of a subreddit.

Edit: if I'm being honest, I thought Community was a dumb name too.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, both of them are much more sensical at a glance than "subreddit." Subreddit only makes sense because of how long we've been using the term, if you came to it without prior knowledge it'd be hard to figure out the meaning.

I do agree that "magazine" is pretty terrible, though. There's no meaningful analogy between what we're doing here (threaded conversations on a particular topic) and what's in a magazine. "Community" isn't terrible, IMO, if it comes down to it I'd much prefer that one.

[–] cargo@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Magazine makes sense in the bigger picture when you think about. Let's break it down.

Microblog -> post. Makes sense you are posting a micro blog.
Lemmy has no concept of microblogging. So is fine using community and post naming.

Now why magazine? If you can't use post then you need an alternative and that's where article comes in. You submit an article of 4 types but what should these be in. You probably could get away with collections but something that also has articles, a magazine.

Qed magazines name (note all of this is completely made up and my justification for magazine)

[–] ekjp@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly subreddits actually used to be just "reddits".

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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I prefer "bins" over "magazines" but if we wanted to sync linguistically with Lemmy it wouldn't make much sense.

[–] Azzu@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There should be no vote, it should just be decided between the lead devs. Users will follow and largely not care.

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[–] CrystalEYE@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not really. A magazine is a collection of articles that all are about a certain topic. It is not that hard of a concept to grasp

Plus: The polish dev called his platform kbin = karabin = rifle, the contents of a rifle are stored in a magazyn = magazine. I actually would have loved if the dev had called threads "bullets" / pocisk to keep going with the theme.

EDIT: this info might be wrong, as @minnieo pointed out. kbin is just a reference to the linux sbin folder.

I am more confused with the upvote and down vote buttons on kbin: the upvote is actually favorite, the equivalent to reddits upvote is boost, the downvote seems not to have a real function besides counting the number.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am more confused with the upvote and down vote buttons on kbin: the upvote is actually favorite, the equivalent to reddits upvote is boost, the downvote seems not to have a real function besides counting the number.

TIL... I've been using the upvote the same as I did with reddit.

I've not been able to wrap my head around reputation points either. I've made several comments, a couple of posts, and my reputation has gone from 0 to -1 to +1 to 0 over the course of the week I've been here.

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, boosts increase reputation and downvotes ("reduces") decrease reputation. From what I've heard, this is a mistake from when boosts and upvotes ("favorites") were switched in some way that I don't really understand. Upvotes should be the thing that increases karma, and the fact that they aren't is a bug. The kbin developer has mentioned plans to fix that.

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[–] Hobovision@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard boost is +1 reputation and down vote is -1. Kinda wack if you ask me.

[–] S4nvers@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I know that‘s because earlier in development the boost actually was the upvote, but now it‘s as you‘d expect it coming from Reddit

But I think the reputation system just hasn‘t been adapted to this yet

I‘ve just heard that from someone else around here, so take it with a grain of salt

[–] digitallyfree@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

The boost also apparently sends the post out to your subscribers, whereas the upvote does not.

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

a different persons polish INSTANCE is called karabin. Ernest named this Kbin in reference to linux sbin and magazines in reference to retro video game magazines. dont spread this fake pro gun stuff about ernest please

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I first arrived here, I assumed magazines = communities and made some flippant comment to that effect, only to be set straight by someone more knowledgeable. They essentially argued that magazines > communities on account of the fact that a hashtag within a magazine post is meaningful to kbin but not lemmy. So the different naming underscores that they are not, in fact, identical. Though to be fair, I haven’t seen a lot of posts with hashtags to date.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

if you setup tags for a magazine on kbin, posts being published in the fediverse with those tags end up in the Microblog section. just check it.

[–] Kara@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe this only works on Kbin though, not Lemmy

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[–] chamim@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I see what you mean about the names causing confusion, as I was confused myself at first, it took me very little time to adapt. Don't underestimate the users, most won't care too much about what 'subreddits' are called on each platform.

[–] Azzu@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not really about the confusion, it's just unnecessary complexity. Magazines and communities for example are completely equal concepts, the only difference is the name for some reason, probably marketing or some such.

[–] Mr_Jabroni@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

But they are not completely equal. Yes, kbin Magazines display threads just as Lemmy communities do, however Magazines have the Microblog tab where they display posts across the Fediverse that include the tags associated with them. That is extra functionality which Lemmy does not have.

[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's like saying Facebook and Twitter should come to a concensus on how to name stuff

Lemmy and Kbin are different platforms that are compatible with activitypub (just like other platforms in the fediverse, like peertube, friendica, pleroma or mastodon, among others)

[–] tikitaki@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

facebook and twitter are not federated

i don't see why creating standards for less confusion would hurt anyone. i think ultimately the standards should be optional - but standards exist for a reason

[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

But Kbin is a platform and Lemmy is a different platform, just like Twitter and Facebook are different platforms. It's just that Lemmy and Kbin use a common protocol, ActivityPub that allows interaction between different platforms. But that does not means both platforms are (or should be) the same

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I feel like it's going to take awhile for people used to Facebook / Twitter / Reddit / Etc to get used to having multiple platforms that cater to the exact same audience. Lemmy / Kbin basically do the same thing, with slightly different minor features. Most people aren't used to having options.

That said I feel like having some standardized naming across the fediverse wouldn't hurt with things that are synonymous, if that's not already happening. There's a valid argument for magazines and communities not being the same thing

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[–] jalda@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That's like saying Facebook and Twitter should come to a concensus on how to name stuff

Twitter changed Favs to Likes to copy Facebook

[–] Azzu@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't think it's even close to the same. It's more like forum software everywhere calls a post a "post" and a reply a "reply" and not something else.

Both sites are link aggregators, both sites have sub groups that are meant for a specific topic that links can be posted to, this concept should have a name.

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[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

That's like saying Microsoft and Sony need to settle on either "Gamertag" or "PSNID", because otherwise Call of Duty players trying to find their friends online will be confused.

I think users can figure things out.

[–] trynn@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

What you're proposing is pretty antithetical to the way the fediverse works. Kbin and Lemmy are two completely different pieces of software that just happen to communicate with each other. There can easily be more (and probably will be in the future) that name their version of a subreddit something else entirely. Heck, Reddit could conceivably add activitypub federation and then you'd literally have subreddits as part of the fediverse.

The entire point is that things are decentralized so the users and developers that make use of the fediverse can do whatever they want with it and so that no single person, organization, or community can enforce their decisions on everyone else.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So the problem with this idea is we're gonna get into a big argument about whether to keep magazines or communities and honestly just screw that. A magazine is a community, a cat is a kitty. We can have two words for things.

Edit: If we do get into it I vote for "magazine" because I went there for the topic primarily.

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

/kbin magazines, Lemmy communities and Friendica forums are (according to ActivityStreams vocabulary) groups. However, the same applies to Mobilizon groups, which work slightly differently, allow private discussions, having common file resources, and most important of all - organising events.
We could also call these three subfeddits, which is another word to learn ;)
or simply to go ahead. All communities and forums already will be seen by /kbin as magazines, and the same is accordingly true to other software.

Also, not all vocabulary aligning is actually desired - /kbin explicitly uses name boost to align with Mastodon feature. However, both "boost" and upvote have a "boosting" effect - the meaning of the feature (being simply reblog or re-tweet) is obscured right now.

Another confusing Mastodon nomenclature alignement is calling only microblog posts posts. Majority of /kbin users are Reddit emigrants right now, and Reddit used name post for /kbin article. In reality, everything, from articles and "tweets", through audio and video, to places, events and relationships (!), can in ActivityPub be called posts. ActivityStreams vocabulary differentiates between an article (long form, formatted), and note (short, equivalent of tweet and toot), and IMO /kbin should adopt the name note for microblog posts - to reduce confusion (Calc- and Misskey already use that name).

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[–] ikantolol@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.

there's no need really, for new adopters or if you're planning to bring someone to the fediverse, simply do not mention anything about it being federated and just direct them to your preferred instances (in this case, kbin). Let them just learn kbin for a while before introducing the interconnected instances.

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[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah no. Both are different softwares and can perfectly coexist with their own naming conventions. There is no need to make them both exact clones of each other.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Community magazines" there perfect alternative

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[–] Ronno@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree and disagree.
Agree, because it would make things easier.

Disagree, because one of the value propositions of the fediverse is that every platform can be managed independently, while still interacting with the same content. Heck if they call it peanuts in one platform, and oranges in the other, all fine with me

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[–] WytchStar@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Create your own instance and name them whatever you want.

FR tho, think about what you're suggesting. Take all this decentralized content and homogenize it? Hard pass. BTDT.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I've found myself saying magazine/group/community to cover my bases, so having a common name might be nice.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, while I like Kbin and understand what "Magazine" means, it would make a lot more sense and would've been easier to onboard if they'd also gone with "Community" it's more intuitive.

[–] retronautickz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Why? They are different platforms.

Mastodon, Misskey, GoToSocial and Pleroma don't use the same terminology either.

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