I don’t think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.

We should be referring to it as…

  • I saw it on the fediverse.
  • Hey fediverse users …
  • A thread on the fediverse…

New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.

edit: A better example is email. You wouldn’t assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I’m sendingan eamail, not I’m sending a Hotmail.

  • NaN
    26•1 year ago

    I’ve been missing this grandiose caliber of post since leaving Reddit, truly bravo.

    - Posted to Lemmy

    • Silverseren
      19•1 year ago

      You didn’t actually. You posted to Kbin. Because this thread is on Kbin, even if you’re reading it on Lemmy. Which is kind of OP’s point.

      • NaN
        32•1 year ago

        I did, actually. My instance has a saved copy of the post, I replied to it there, it forwarded the information to Kbin.

        OPs point is dumb. Lemmy and Kbin are separate platforms that happen to be interoperable because of the backend protocol they’ve decided to use (which Kbin added relatively recently in the grand scheme). The Fediverse is made up of many of these platforms that are doing the same thing. There is nothing wrong with referring to the platform one is using.

        • Silverseren
          6•1 year ago

          Wouldn’t every viewed copy anywhere then be a saved copy of the original post? Does that distinction even mean anything when it’s still posting specifically to the original instance?

          If I reply in a Lemmy.world thread, I’m still posting on Lemmy.world even if I’m viewing from Kbin.social.

          As a comparative example to old and dying social media, it would be like finding a link to a celebrity’s Twitter comment on Reddit and you saying you saw the person saying that on Reddit, which would be extremely misleading to anyone listening, thinking that the celebrity had posted it on Reddit.

          • NaN
            2•1 year ago

            It’s not posting comments specifically to the original instance. If the instances defederate I can continue to post comments, and people on my instance can see and interact with them.

            Once somebody subscribes to a community (or magazine if you’re on the rifle site), ActivityPub acts like dynamic, synchronizing RSS. Everybody interacts with local data, an instance isn’t simply acting as a proxy when interacting with a different instance.

          • Kichae
            1•1 year ago

            No, you’re posting on kbin.social. You’re never ever doing anything directly on a remote site. You view on k-so, you vote on k-so, you post on k-soc, and you comment on k-soc. Your actions are then, at some later point (which may be microseconds, or it may be hours, depending on traffic levels on both k-soc and the remote website), relayed to the remote website so the two copies of the community can be synchronised.

        • @CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi
          6•1 year ago

          Well said. If you want to mean all the things connected to ActivityPub, you say Fediverse. If it’s restricted to lemmy, use lemmy. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. OP saying it borders on ignorance may have to think about it.

          I use lemmy. I don’t really care for nor use other Fediverse services like Mastodon.