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”?
I love the lack of karma farming here. Keeping votes local / contained is a small but important change.
And yes, I know there are work-arounds for people who care about that shit, but making it non-default sets the tone.
Isn’t it a lot harder to tell when people are just trolls? You have to look at multiple comments to see all the negative points they typically get to realize it’s not with your time to respond to them
It is harder, but in my experience so far I wouldn’t say it’s a lot harder. That might change if we had a sudden influx of thousands of new users
You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, …)
Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, …
Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn’t always work.
I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.
The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don’t work as smooth (yet). And we’re only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.
Comms = subs, though it’ll take a while to catch on I guess.
OP is OP. Though even in Reddit it was somewhat interchangeable between the person who created the post, and the person who posted the top comment of whatever discussion is ongoing.
Edit etiquette should stay. Ninja edits are rude, unless you’re fixing typos. Even edits made instantly after a post/comment can sometimes show up much later than the original post due to federation latency.
Comms
I don’t think I have seen anyone use that here.
Same, and I don’t like it, idk why exactly but I think because too many other things already get referred to as such.
I’ve been using “muni / munis” and only once has it caused any confusion.
That probably would have taken a second for me without context. I don’t know if there is a good short for community. Or if one is even needed, really.
Where does comms = subs? Never heard it used in that context
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 :)
The selfhosted community is tight here
I really wish people would stop talking about R.
Fucking get over it
like it or not but lemmy and reddit are obviously simililar platforms, so expect parallels to be drawn
I choose not
“I don’t want to read any more about Reddit… so I’ll click into this thread which is obviously about Reddit.”
“I don’t like this comment, so I’ll just reply to it”
I don’t mind the comment, I just feel like I have to point out you’re doing this to yourself and you do actually have the option of taking your hand off the hotplate.
Attempting to shame someone for having a dissenting opinion is the most Reddit thing ever.
If you want echo chambers, dog whistles, group think, and brigading, then go back there.
Here however, you’re allowed to express dislike.
I dislike when people like you try to make this place more like Reddit, because Reddit is and was a shithole.
