I don’t think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.

We should be referring to it as…

  • I saw it on the fediverse.
  • Hey fediverse users
  • A thread on the fediverse

New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.

edit: A better example is email. You wouldn’t assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I’m sendingan eamail, not I’m sending a Hotmail.

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    But you are posting on a Kbin thread right now, not a Lemmy thread. So you’re not “on Lemmy World” when you’re viewing this thread.

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      it’s more correct to say they’re on lemmy than kbin though… they are interacting through lemmy: kbin is literally irrelevant to them

      … and that’s kinda the point of the fediverse isn’t it? you shouldn’t care where something is stored, and if you don’t care where it’s stored then you have only 1 way to refer to the space: the client by which you’re viewing it

      people referring to it as “lemmy” or “kbin” or “mastodon” is the fediverse working as intended, and that’s good news!

      (it’s also much better marketing for us! people search fediverse and they get a bunch of random descriptions about what it is… people search lemmy/kbin and at least they have a join button)

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        You’re absolutely right, presenting an awesome website first and allowing the true nature of the fediverse to sneak up on people is a great way to handle it. Even if someone learns about the fediverse as a whole first somehow, they’ll need to figure out what ‘portal’ into it makes the most sense anyway.

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        Mastodon is at least something of a more generalized term at least, because that’s referring to hundreds of instances. And it has a specific (Twitter-esque) format that unites them. But Lemmy and Kbin has the same formatting structure (Reddit-esque). Makes me wonder if we need a specific, but generalized term that unites everything in this format.

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          Well, the Twitter-esque format also extends to Misskey and Pleroma, and there are tons of those accounts interacting seamlessly with Mastodon instances. So in a way those microblogging instances face the same issue you’re describing between Lemmy and Kbin. In any case, I’m a fan of ‘threadiverse’ as a term for the Reddit-like instances.

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      No. I am on Lemmy.World right now viewing a KBin thread. My entire interaction here is through Lemmy.World and not KBin. So for me to say, “I was on KBin arguing with someone,” would be factually incorrect because I am not on KBin. It would be factually correct to say, “I was on the Fediverse arguing with someone,” but since the Fediverse has different forms, that interaction itself could take several forms and context does sometimes matter. There’s nothing wrong with the more generic The Fediverse, but there’s also nothing wrong with stating which instance you’re using to be more specific.

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        But the person you were arguing with wasn’t arguing with you on Lemmy.world, so that’s misleading on where the argument was taking place.

        If someone took you at your word and looked on Lemmy.world in specific, they would not be able to find the argument in question, because it was taking place in a Kbin.social thread.

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          They absolutely would be able to find it on Lemmy.world. Here’s a link to this very argument: https://lemmy.world/comment/971144

          Note that is on Lemmy.World. That’s part of why the Fediverse is great. You can find this argument which you’re engaging on KBin and I’m engaging on Lemmy.World on any similarly connected Fediverse site.

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          The battlecruisers were out arguing in neutral space, in the verse.

          The cruisers’ home ports were planet Lemmy and planet Kbin.

          Unfortunately half the galaxy was destroyed in the ensuing exchange.

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        You’re missing the point. If I email you, are we talking ON Gmail? ON Hotmail? Not really. We’re using our different clients to interact with the same original message. Sure, the message gets converted to your emails specific formatting, but it’s just a copy of the original info. The message itself is the conversation, the clients are just access to it.

        You wouldn’t say “I drove my Honda to the store”. You’d say “I drove my car”.

        Nobody said “I’m browsing Apollo/Sync/RIF”. You’d say “I’m browsing Reddit” or “fuck spez”.

        You’re one step from being the mom that calls every video game system a “Nintendo”.

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          You wouldn’t say “I drove my Honda to the store”.

          I have absolutely heard people talk like that, especially if they have multiple cars.

          Nobody said “I’m browsing Apollo/Sync/RIF”

          I used to say, “When I was on RIF.”

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          are we talking ON Gmail?

          Sometimes. People meeting in real life, exchanging email addresses, and noticing they’re both on GMail, is common enough for some people, they really are on GMail. Implying they could chat trivially. But that’s not applicable to the scenario under discussion.

          Actually you’d just say you drove to the store. We don’t really care if you own a car, a truck, and a SUV in your driveway. We don’t expect you to have a horse and buggy.

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        You had an argument on the 'verse.

        The apostrophe is gonna get dropped eventually. Same as it did for 'net meaning internet.

        I doubt fedi~ will be remembered after awhile. It’ll be seen as pedantic, technical, or old school.

        I don’t know if people are generally sci-fi enough to think of you as on “planet Lemmy” but it would have a bit of snark like saying you’re on planet Mars. Could be a good subculture lingo.

        “I am Clark Kent from the planet Kbin!”

        “Yeah and I’m Flash Gordon STFU.”