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People need buzzwords to feel like they belong to a group. We are just a bunch of nerds who already know that. It's a free spirit community as long as you behave like a human. You can try to establish some new terminology, but don't come up with the old reddit stuff, people will make fun of you.
- Community - the equivalent of a subreddit. Some people shorten it to "comm".
- Instance or server - a site using Lemmy or Mbin or PieFed, with multiple communities in it. For example lemmy.world and mander.xyz are instances.
- Upvote, downvote - the same as in Reddit.
- karma - it would be the same as in Reddit, except that the main software (Lemmy) doesn't have it.
- Lemming - a Lemmy user
- Defed - often used as a verb. Because "defederate" is too long.
Who tf says lemming
I haven't seen lemming in like a year when reddit users (including me) were moving over and some people apparently needed a replacement for redditor.
I don't remember ever seeing defed in place of defederate or comm in place of community, but maybe I just missed out on that.
Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?
I'm a lemmonaut
At a lemonparty?
Karma exists but unless I'm off we don't seem to really mention it ever. Theres up and downvotes but I just like them as a way of letting me know how far out my ideas or comments are without taking it personally. It improves your thinking and advocacy skills so its cool