Kbinners? Binnies? Kbinators?

  • Blakerboy777@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.

    1. Between Kbin and Lemmy, there’s already two choices of software platforms for Reddit-esque link aggregators that work together. In the future there may be more. I think the term should be inclusive.
    2. Fedditor is play on redditor, a widely used term for users of the privately owned Reddit. A fedditor is a user of a Fediverse alternative.
    3. Since ActivityPub is an underlying protocol that interfaces with the rest of the Fediverse, I think emphasizing the Fediverse aspect and the “reddit-esque” aspect is more important than the specific software platform.
    4. People may use different terms for Kbin vs Lemmy vs future alternatives (or ones I just don’t know about), but they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of. I think if any term becomes widespread, it should be an inclusive term that fall underneath a more general term such as Fedditor.
    • onepinksheep@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can’t think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.

      • callyral@readit.buzz
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        1 year ago

        ooh! that’s so neat, specially fitting since fediverse implies a kind of universe to be explored by, well, fedinauts

      • speck@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Ooh, fedinauts is good. Definitely agree to prioritize something which doesn’t favor a particular instance and rather emphasizes the idea of the fediverse. Also, the ~nauts variations also connote a sort of star trek federation vibe, which suits this whole endeavor.

    • solomoncaygnuyou@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I like this idea. A term that is site-agnostic is a good idea since there are so many potential names for any given instance.

      There’s also just no elegant way to turn “kbins.social” into a term that rolls off the tongue. “k-beans” and similar terms are just awkward and I can’t see them being adopted en masse.