Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of “magazine” and “community”? When you’re federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other.
Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.
^I’m pretty sure this is going to be impossible though, since each sides egos will likely get in the way :D^
/kbin magazines, Lemmy communities and Friendica forums are (according to ActivityStreams vocabulary)
groups. However, the same applies to Mobilizon groups, which work slightly differently, allow private discussions, having common file resources, and most important of all - organising events.We could also call these three subfeddits, which is another word to learn ;)
or simply to go ahead. All communities and forums already will be seen by /kbin as magazines, and the same is accordingly true to other software.
Also, not all vocabulary aligning is actually desired - /kbin explicitly uses name
boostto align with Mastodon feature. However, both “boost” and upvote have a “boosting” effect - the meaning of the feature (being simply reblog or re-tweet) is obscured right now.Another confusing Mastodon nomenclature alignement is calling only microblog posts
posts. Majority of /kbin users are Reddit emigrants right now, and Reddit used namepostfor /kbinarticle. In reality, everything, from articles and “tweets”, through audio and video, to places, events and relationships (!), can in ActivityPub be called posts. ActivityStreams vocabulary differentiates between anarticle(long form, formatted), andnote(short, equivalent of tweet and toot), and IMO /kbin should adopt the namenotefor microblog posts - to reduce confusion (Calc- and Misskey already use that name).I could easily see it being added in options that people can see these terms as whatever they prefer. Could even be done with browser extensions/user scripts relatively simply.