I know the obvious things like federation and fediverse, but do we say upvote/downvote, updoot, karma? I hate to bring up the software that must not be named, but I don’t know what else to call things.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    38·
    9 days ago
    • Community - the equivalent of a subreddit. Some people shorten it to “comm”.
    • Instance or server - a site using Lemmy or Mbin or PieFed, with multiple communities in it. For example lemmy.world and mander.xyz are instances.
    • Upvote, downvote - the same as in Reddit.
    • karma - it would be the same as in Reddit, except that the main software (Lemmy) doesn’t have it.
    • Lemming - a Lemmy user
    • Defed - often used as a verb. Because “defederate” is too long.
      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        I haven’t seen lemming in like a year when reddit users (including me) were moving over and some people apparently needed a replacement for redditor.

        I don’t remember ever seeing defed in place of defederate or comm in place of community, but maybe I just missed out on that.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 days ago

        I don’t, but I’ve seen plenty people saying it. Just like “defed”, Snooggums didn’t see it but I did.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
    24·
    9 days ago

    You subscribe to communities, which are hosted on different servers. Upvotes and downvotes are what they are. AFAIK there is no karma counting here.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 days ago

      Some apps/front ends/instances track upvote/downvote totals. Haven’t run into any automated filters based on total karma yet, though.

      Also worth mentioning that instance admins and some moderators can see specific users’ upvotes and downvotes.

      There’s also a public mod log where instances display their moderator actions taken against whom for what reasons. Doesn’t quite stop moderator abuse but it makes it public.

      • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        Any kbin user can see everyone who upvoted something. They used to be able to see all of the downvotes as well, but that was disabled with most kbin instances…

        As far as I know, all you need to do is find a kbin instance that allows their users to see both upvotes and downvotes (or set up an instance yourself).

        It’s best to treat your votes here as public if you’re coming from Reddit where you normally expect this to be hidden.

  • Frisbeedude@feddit.org
    23·
    9 days ago

    People need buzzwords to feel like they belong to a group. We are just a bunch of nerds who already know that. It’s a free spirit community as long as you behave like a human. You can try to establish some new terminology, but don’t come up with the old reddit stuff, people will make fun of you.

  • Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org
    21·
    9 days ago

    Karma doesnt exist. So when you don’t agree with a user, insult their instance and launch a campaign to defederate from it.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      Sounds like fun.

      Joking aside, if you want to list items vertically without having to input a line break twice, insert three spaces before the line break:

      Docking
      Sounding
      Ligma

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Nazi: When somebody on lemmy says this, they aren’t talking about literal jackboot historical underlings of Adolf Hitler, but instead referring to anyone who isn’t firmly on the progressive side of the political aisle.

    Tankie: I’m still trying to figure this one out. Apparently it’s not referring to tank roles in online games. It supposed to be insulting, despite sounding very laudatory.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 days ago

    Karma exists but unless I’m off we don’t seem to really mention it ever. Theres up and downvotes but I just like them as a way of letting me know how far out my ideas or comments are without taking it personally. It improves your thinking and advocacy skills so its cool

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    4·
    9 days ago

    most everything you do in the fediverse is very public. upvotes and sometimes downvotes can be attributed to you personally. luckily that includes the moderation logs.

    lemmy is only one of many fediverse server types. there are many: https://fedidb.org/ im partial to mbin because it looks more like that other place, and exposes more information like a reputation value (karma) and downvotes