Like, obviously around here you don’t subscribe to a subreddit, were not on reddit.
What about referring to the Original Poster as OP?
What about etiquette like marking edited posts and comments with “Edit: added words or explanations of edits made”?
Its way to late to fix, but instance => community and subreddit => subcommunities would have kept some of the nomenclature similar.
And instances being a community seems to be how beehaw and others want to work anyway.
‘instance’ is already a term used by other federated platforms though. it wouldnt be any less confusing
Well, yeah, like I said, way to late to change. Programmers are notoriously bad at naming things, but once named, its hard to change.
It might have made the “Which instance do I join?” question a bit more intuitive and self-answerable if it was instead:
Q: Which community do I join? A: Oh, obvious, the one that seems to match my IRL community/values.
(If its not obvious, I am also a programmer, so any opinions on usability and human behaviour are also completely detached from reality 😄)
i agree with you now
Not sure I agree with me, but ok :)