Subs? Not sure if that’s the right term on here.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      641·
      8 months ago

      OP was clearly talking about BDSM. Now he’s too embarrassed to correct us and is continuing with this whole communities / magazine charade.

    • Vej@lemm.eeOP
      48·
      8 months ago

      Ohh thus the /c/ that I see being referenced right?

      Thanks for clarifying that!

        • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
          384·
          8 months ago

          Yep, but jeez, Magazine is a pretty terrible name for what it’s attempting to describe… Don’t get me wrong, they can call their communities whatever the hell they want but it feels like they’re bending over backwards to avoid saying ‘community’ only to settle on a name that doesn’t even make sense. Magazines are something meant to be consumed, they’re a one way street. Communities on the other hand are a place where you’re ideally both reading and contributing. Lemmy/kbin doesn’t work without active users contributing content and joining discussions. At least reddit’s jargon had some logic to it reddit -> subreddit aka sub-community on reddit.

          • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            I agree, and I still don’t even know if they mean magazine as in the publication or as in the thing that holds ammunition - both make about the same amount of sense to me.

            I find kbin more confusing overall, e.g. how you have both boost and voting available, but then for short posts boost is more obviously placed (since the up/downvote buttons are way over on the right).

            • livus@kbin.social
              7·
              8 months ago

              They mean as in publication.

              Boost is favourite/retweet.

              When I first joined kbin the boost button had an upvote function and the upvote button had a favourite function and didn’t affect upvotes, but the dev swapped them because we were all too confused.

              • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
                4·
                8 months ago

                Ah, they’d changed it? That explains my confusion - I already had a Mastodon account so I was familiar with the boost concept, apart from how it worked in a threaded setup.

                Anyway, yeah - confusing!

                • livus@kbin.social
                  4·
                  8 months ago

                  I think we have it because Kbin federates with Mastodon via the microblog section - this is also why it has two kinds of posts, “articles” (like lemmy posts) and “posts” (like Mastodon toots).

                  It’s super confusing at first but once you get used to it, it’s pretty cool.

            • andrewta@lemmy.world
              3·
              8 months ago

              Magazine like you put into a weapon actually applies very well to certain communities if you really think about it.

          • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
            111·
            8 months ago

            The original definition of “magazine” was simply “warehouse”. A place where you amassed a bunch of stuff. This usage is still around, but it’s rare.

            At the time, the military was perhaps the most prominent entity creating these well-stocked warehouses, so the specific linking of “magazine” to “military warehouse” was a natural progression. And as we all are familiar now, it later morphed into a word to describe a chamber of bullets. In a sense, a tiny little military warehouse you attach to your gun.

            The definition referring to a paper catalog getting mailed to your house full of random written articles comes from one very specific one, named Gentleman’s Magazine. It was named that because it thought itself a magazine (a warehouse) of information.

            I assume kbin was thinking of the latter when using the term to describe its communities. Though, considering the right-wing bias of its target audience, I expect the wordplay with the ammunition definition was also intended.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 months ago

      Ok, and what how do you shorten it? No way I’m typing it out all the time it comes up. Comms seem to be appropriate

  • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
    522·
    8 months ago

    Superbowl is a great little sub, the main person behind it makes all these fantastic posts full of information and photos- I’ve learnt so much about owls in the last few weeks!

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        12·
        8 months ago

        This was funnier on reddit where there could be only one “superbowl” sub and it was taken by enthusiasts of superb owls. It is less funny on a platform where “superbowl” on other instances can still be a community for Super Bowl fans.

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        I am glad! Lemmy needs more bright little corners of things to make people smile. It’s good to follow politics and news and tech, but those things are seldom positive stories.

        With nobody else posting, I decided to make it what I wanted to see on Lemmy, so while I do post adorable but deadly birds, I also try to teach about them so we care about saving them and to spotlight the people that care for them when they’re injured.

        Sometimes I’ll post about environmental concerns if it’s more important than usual, but it’s mainly just to give everyone, including myself, something to look forward to seeing.

        If you’re non-US, I try to they’re in owls from around the world a few times a week, and if you have any questions it there’s something you want to see, just let me know!

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
          2·
          8 months ago

          Alright! Thank you! I really appreciate all your work and I enjoy reading the stories about the birds themselves and the teaching info too. It’s definitely a great community that I didn’t know I needed until I joined, it’s very positive like you said.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      0·
      8 months ago

      Between this and my crosspost to !aww@lemmy.ml, this explains the higher number of subscribers this week. I was wondering what was going on!

      Thanks for the promotion! I’m glad it’s something you think others should see.

  • apotheotic(she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    302·
    8 months ago

    I’ve had nothing but praise in the past, but I don’t really know you that way and I don’t go around advertising it

  • donuts@kbin.social
    191·
    8 months ago

    Shameless plug, but if you’re into retro gaming at all then come check out kbin.social/m/fpgagaming.

    It’s the spiritual successor to my old somewhat popular subreddit of the same name where we cover topics related to programmable logic-based retro game hardware. If using bespoke (i.e.: Analogue Pocket) or open source (i.e.: MiSTer) hardware for high-accuracy emulation of retro gaming systems is something that you might be into, then fpgagaming is the new place on the fediverse to go. :)

  • Papanca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    8 months ago

    Here are some random communities that you may enjoy. As general tip: look for things you enjoy. For instance, there are plenty of communities about privacy and open source, food, climate, gaming, browsers, plants and animals, news, politics, sports, memes, you name it. I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

    !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world (i love this one, but lately the number of posts seems to be less frequent) !asklemmy@lemmy.world (usually friendly and interesting to see what is going on in other people’s minds and participating in the discussions) !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca !aww@lemmy.ml !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      1·
      8 months ago

      I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities…

      Hmm, I don’t really get that. Most of the time “trending communities” seem to be newly-created communities with little if any content. Considering how common it is for people to grab a community name and sit on it indefinitely, I feel like the ‘trending detection’ formula could be tweaked to display newer communities with solid growth, instead.

      …or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

      I salute the spirit of that, but the number of healthy communities across the FV seems pretty limited so far. Sure, it’s not that hard to find ghost communities with search tools (I tend to use this one), but that’s kind of a bittersweet feeling.

  • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    That all depends on what you’re interested in. I’m assuming you’ve come from reddit, so you could try sub.rehab to find new homes for your subs, although tbh I don’t know if it’s up to date or not - there have been some instances die so the communities had to move.

    • Cras@feddit.uk
      12·
      8 months ago

      The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that’s where lemmings live.

      Absolutely not.

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              It stands for “reddit,” which was actually the official name they used for subreddits. They were actually supposed to be just called “reddits” (so like, “come visit the Gaming reddit!”), but that’s stupid so nobody called them that. The “/r/” is a vestige of that.

              Quick Google search:

              We actually called them “reddits” for a while. So you’d read your reddit on reddit, and maybe you’d reddit on your reddit on Reddit and… well that’s a lot of reddit-ing (the r/ is a vestige of this time as well). But that got pretty confusing, so we moved to “subreddit” (like sub-domain, but… reddit).

              Which, according to Google’s AI, comes from this, but it’s reddit so I’m not going to bother reading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sta5wl/why_is_subreddit_or_a_brief_history_of_the/

              • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
                11·
                8 months ago

                I know, just my point is people don’t always and don’t have to be conformative. It’s just one of those “it’s catching on” things. You and everyone may call it what one wants (nothing in TOS restricting that, as if I had to check), not sure why some things don’t sit well with certain people. I can link to my main source, but the OP/question was deleted, so yeah.

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that’s where lemmings live.

      Shit. That’s good.