long-term Lemmy users, what terms from the other site don't work here?
long-term Lemmy users, what terms from the other site don't work here?
Like, obviously around here you don't subscribe to a subreddit, were not on reddit.
What about referring to the Original Poster as OP?
What about etiquette like marking edited posts and comments with "Edit: added words or explanations of edits made"?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😄)
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
