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Discussion of language about Lemmy. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by C4Phoenix@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like a much talked about criticism of getting started with Lemmy is that the 'average person' doesn't understand it. I see a lot of technical people, myself included, use words that the 'average person' shies away from. Mentioning concepts like servers and Fediverse requires some background knowledge. I propose we start using 'providers' instead of servers, as it helps understand the function of it instead of the implementation. There might be more words that could be confusing, so let's have a conversation about them. Are there any you recognize as being able to be simplified, or is this a non issue?

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[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Things aren't meant to be understood in a matter of seconds. I'm not by any means a tech-savvy person, and it was challenging the first few days to grasp the concept of federation and decentralization. And that's completely fine. Explaining things to people as if they were five year olds is demeaning to them. We as humanity are meant to evolve and not regress.

Conversation in that respect is indeed important, yet the last week has consisted of people conversing about Lemmy's structure so there isn't any lack of communication.