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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn't the perfect name but it's more memorable than kbin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE

That's what I needed to hear today. genius

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking about names. What the hell is a "magazine"?? It's like the kbin devs went out of their way to ensure they named everything to be as confusing to outsiders as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kind of like how Lemmy made up communities? Lol you don’t call microblogs “toots” either. Seems every fediverse software has their own terminology.

Also it’s dev, singular. Kbin has been put together by only one dev. I personally find that damn impressive considering it’s functionally on par with Lemmy being only 2 months old to Lemmy’s 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Community seems like a fine name, did you want them to call it a subreddit? Lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with community, the point is Lemmy created the term the same as Kbin created magazine. Not every microblogging site in the fediverse calls them “toots” for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but community does a good job of explaining what it is conceptually with a word everyone understands, while being "vendor neutral" as it were.

"magazine" tells me fuck all, I'm not even certain what it's supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Really? Kbin as the name is what intrigued me initially over Lemmy. It’s actually inspired by Linux, the sbin directory to be specific.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I literally chose Lemmy instead of kbin because kbin sounds like a KDE app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, Lemmy is pronounceable, like Jimmy or any other name. How many syllables is kbin? Four individual letters?

Also also, "Lemmy World" can be said out loud in polite company. Shit just doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be pronounced “kaybin”. Like the Linux directory /sbin. It’s basically a name technical people would appreciate in a pun sort of way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, thank you. "Kaybin" is pronounceable - when you know this.

I am not very familiar with Linux. Can you tell me what /sbin means? And if kbin is a nod to that, then what does the "k" mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can you tell me what /sbin means?

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