The lemmyverse sounds perfect, but it ignores alternatives like kbin etc. It would be better if we didn’t end up with the situation we have with Mastodon where people assume Mastodon is the fediverse.

So, what do we call this little niche in the fediverse?

Communiverse? FediGroups?

#lemmy #kbin #fediverse #communiverse #FediGroups

  • AdaOPA
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    610 months ago

    What prompted this was trying to refer to the growth of the userbase on the federated Reddit alternatives as a distinct niche within the fediverse.

    • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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      1010 months ago

      I’d probably call this niche of fediverse apps “fediverse link aggregators”. Their UI really only makes them useful for that at the moment (IMO - haven’t tried kbin), and you can technically follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon if you want (it’s not a great UX), but you don’t get the aggregation doing that. At least not without sorting down to just that view.

      • AdaOPA
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        410 months ago

        That’s the best idea I’ve heard yet. It’s not very “cool” but it solves the problem perfectly :)

        • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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          210 months ago

          As a “replacement” for Reddit (I think that moniker is selling it short, it can be so much more), it makes sense. Reddit and sites like it, depending on the specific community are really just a place to share content from outside sources and discuss that content with a like-minded community.

          The other type of subreddit I’ve see are tech support style where someone is asking a question of a group of people who are likely to have a good understanding of the subject matter. I think link-aggregation-style sites are the best interface for these at the moment as well.

          • @maegul@lemmy.ml
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            310 months ago

            I like the approach, but think both “fediverse” and “link-aggregator” are just not good terms from any sort of branding/messaging/marketing perspective. They’re both relatively technical or confusing and inaccurate. The fediverse isn’t really a federation, which you forget once you understand what federation is in a computing sense or in the case of the fediverse, and lemmy and reddit aren’t really link-aggregators, they’re more like forums.

            • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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              510 months ago

              I would agree with you… except that Reddit has always been referred to a link aggregator (and forum) since I’ve used it. It’s a bit of both.

              The problem is that there isn’t really an over-arching name that you can call these services because they are all pretty distinct in their feature sets. Lemmy and kbin get grouped together often, but kbin also has microblogging capabilities which sets it apart from both Lemmy and Reddit.

              • @maegul@lemmy.ml
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                310 months ago

                Ha yea … the elephant in the room is that we probably just want to define ourselves as “Not-Mastodon”.

                Even though /kbin is a fusion of platform formats (which I think is awesome BTW), the underlying common factor is the primary basis of connecting or socialising.

                IN the case of reddit/lemmy/kbin/link aggregators etc … it’s subject matters and interests, not direct person-to-person social connections (which aren’t even possible on lemmy). It’s a significant difference IMO, and well worth trying to package in a memorable catchphrase or term. I just don’t know what it’d be (my best idea being “threadiverse”, which doesn’t capture this idea at all really).

                • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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                  110 months ago

                  Yeah, I’d love to setup a /kbin instance at some point, it seems pretty nice.

                  Yeah… I’m not good at naming things lol

      • Alonealastalovedalongthe
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        310 months ago

        @jax @ada

        I think when talking colloquially to a broader audience, “reddit-like” is good enough.

        When talking internally, I don’t know, “link aggregator” doesn’t really describe what these are to me at all. I wouldn’t call reddit a “link aggregator” it doesn’t really fit what reddit is (many posts don’t have links??).

        I think the essential differentiator of reddit is the voting.