Most of those things came long before Reddit and still apply to just being online in general. Only the word "subreddit" is unique to Reddit, as well as certain in-jokes ("when does the narwhal bacon?"). Really thinking about it, I'm not sure Reddit was ever really unique at all. It just has a lot of users.
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And to be fair, that whole narwhal bacon thing was a weird fad of internet culture as a whole, not just on Reddit (think pre-2014 internet imo)
The narwal bacon meme itself was specifically reddit, as it was a deeply cringey joke post someone made as a shibollith to try to identify redditors in the real world.
It was the perfect mix of very awkward, very stupid, and weirdly preening that got people to "ironically" use it for a bit on reddit, which then spread wider.
In this moment
I am euphoric
Remember everyone using "le"? And the site-dominating obsession with beards that lasted for months? And the war between cat lovers and dog lovers?
It was all so inane.
Pretty sure the "le" thing came outta 4chan.
Albino Black sheep I always figured. Stemming from the line "I am le tired" from the end of the world flash video. So early 2000s likely
(Just realized if so, that would make it older than the iPhone.. damn time has gone by).
"Well, take a nap ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!"
Classic.
I like your shoelaces!
I like turtles?
I love the lack of karma farming here. Keeping votes local / contained is a small but important change.
And yes, I know there are work-arounds for people who care about that shit, but making it non-default sets the tone.
Isn't it a lot harder to tell when people are just trolls? You have to look at multiple comments to see all the negative points they typically get to realize it's not with your time to respond to them
It is harder, but in my experience so far I wouldn't say it's a lot harder. That might change if we had a sudden influx of thousands of new users
You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, ...)
Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, ...
Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn't always work.
I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.
The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don't work as smooth (yet). And we're only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.
lemmy should have post tags for better filtering, the other things are just like you said.
Comms = subs, though it'll take a while to catch on I guess.
OP is OP. Though even in Reddit it was somewhat interchangeable between the person who created the post, and the person who posted the top comment of whatever discussion is ongoing.
Edit etiquette should stay. Ninja edits are rude, unless you're fixing typos. Even edits made instantly after a post/comment can sometimes show up much later than the original post due to federation latency.
Comms
I don't think I have seen anyone use that here.
Same, and I don't like it, idk why exactly but I think because too many other things already get referred to as such.
I've been using "muni / munis" and only once has it caused any confusion.
That probably would have taken a second for me without context. I don't know if there is a good short for community. Or if one is even needed, really.
OP is far older than reddit. Older than 4chan even. It's not site specific.
I didn't mean to imply it was. I'm just replying in the context of OP's post
This is interesting. I've only spent time on reddit and then here, so I didn't know it was a well known thing on other sites
Yeah I've been using it since long before Reddit existed. Yes, I'm old.
Where does comms = subs? Never heard it used in that context
comms = communities
but since subs is short for subreddits, they're kinda the same if you get what I'm saying here
I do wish we had that three minute window reddit had where you cold fix typos or something without it appearing as edited. Happens to me so often but I usually jsut fix them.
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That depends on your instance. Kbin gives that grace period, or at least when viewing from Kbin. It should be easy enough to implement, if the instance owner is willing.
Edit: this is an edit to demonstrate.
Except with federation, there's no guarantee the edit promulgates as fast as the original.
Maybe they could delay the federation in the first place for a couple mins?
Or maybe we could just proofread our shit.
Probably not though; I myself am terrible about that.
Its way to late to fix, but instance => community and subreddit => subcommunities would have kept some of the nomenclature similar.
And instances being a community seems to be how beehaw and others want to work anyway.
'instance' is already a term used by other federated platforms though. it wouldnt be any less confusing
Well, yeah, like I said, way to late to change. Programmers are notoriously bad at naming things, but once named, its hard to change.
It might have made the "Which instance do I join?" question a bit more intuitive and self-answerable if it was instead:
Q: Which community do I join? A: Oh, obvious, the one that seems to match my IRL community/values.
(If its not obvious, I am also a programmer, so any opinions on usability and human behaviour are also completely detached from reality 😄)
i agree with you now
Not sure I agree with me, but ok :)
The selfhosted community is tight here
sub______
is from Reddit and we should replace sublemmy with something else
It seems that Communities is the standard here
I really wish people would stop talking about R.
Fucking get over it
like it or not but lemmy and reddit are obviously simililar platforms, so expect parallels to be drawn
I choose not
"I don't want to read any more about Reddit... so I'll click into this thread which is obviously about Reddit."
"I don't like this comment, so I'll just reply to it"
I don't mind the comment, I just feel like I have to point out you're doing this to yourself and you do actually have the option of taking your hand off the hotplate.
Attempting to shame someone for having a dissenting opinion is the most Reddit thing ever.
If you want echo chambers, dog whistles, group think, and brigading, then go back there.
Here however, you're allowed to express dislike.
I dislike when people like you try to make this place more like Reddit, because Reddit is and was a shithole.