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[–] [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.