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I know the obvious things like federation and fediverse, but do we say upvote/downvote, updoot, karma? I hate to bring up the software that must not be named, but I don’t know what else to call things.

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

You subscribe to communities, which are hosted on different servers. Upvotes and downvotes are what they are. AFAIK there is no karma counting here.

[–] frisbeedude@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • 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.
[–] B312@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

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