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Discussion of language about Lemmy. (self.lemmy)
submitted 1 year ago by C4Phoenix to c/[email protected]
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I feel like a much talked about criticism of getting started with Lemmy is that the 'average person' doesn't understand it. I see a lot of technical people, myself included, use words that the 'average person' shies away from. Mentioning concepts like servers and Fediverse requires some background knowledge. I propose we start using 'providers' instead of servers, as it helps understand the function of it instead of the implementation. There might be more words that could be confusing, so let's have a conversation about them. Are there any you recognize as being able to be simplified, or is this a non issue?

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[โ€“] C4Phoenix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I also got a particular problem with the word instance, as it signals to me there would be different content in one that is not accessible for the others. That's how it reads at first thought. But this is obviously not the case for Lemmy. It is all shared. That's why I like the word provider more. Gmail is an email provider. Lemmy.ml is a Lemmy provider, same as lemmy.world .

[โ€“] sanguinepar 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I like that - a Lemmy provider, where Lemmy is not a place but a type of thing/service, like "an email" or "a website"