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If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 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 ...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 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!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)

They call them 'reduces'

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Well you were right. That definitely rubs the wrong way lol.

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ew.

WHO thought that was the right term??? Like was some guy using a yellow notepad and putting the bad ideas on the right, and the good ideas on the left, and "reduces" is the one that they landed on??? How bad were the other options???

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The original Kbin dev is Polish, so English is likely a second language for him. Also, it's still very early in development, so a lot of terminology put in use are likely placeholders until something more natural-sounding could be finalized.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Also, it is inspired by a Polish service, Wykop which developed its specific language

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do they have another name for upvotes too?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Only kidding: they use 'favourites'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's also "boosts", sort of like an extra upvote but also a "favorite" kinda thingy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference between a boost and a favourite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.