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New Lemmy user here...What terminology should I know? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by samuelblock@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 61 points 3 weeks 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 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Who tf says lemming

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lemminary

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't, but I've seen plenty people saying it. Just like "defed", Snooggums didn't see it but I did.