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.
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.
I proposed we say cheers or just 🍻 instead of cake day for activitypub- i like to think of everyone just popping into a pub and chatting about stuff.
CAKEDAY LOLZ so rand0m. le laugh
You subscribe to communities, which are hosted on different servers. Upvotes and downvotes are what they are. AFAIK there is no karma counting here.
Lemmy once computed a total score internally, but this was removed in the later versions. There is no such thing as overall user karma or score unless an admin or other software decides to try to compute one. The platform itself doesn’t care.
Here are some examples of “other software” that does compute this.
Mbin still reports the raw reputation score, e.g. https://fedia.io/u/@[email protected]
Piefed instead reports an attitude percentage, e.g. https://piefed.social/u/[email protected]
Both do so without requiring an account.
servers are also known as instances
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.
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.
Everything is enshittification. And you better like GNU/Linux, or else…
- 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.
Who tf says lemming
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.
Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?
Not really terminology, but I would recommend trying to engage in good faith when discussing more complex issues on Lemmy. Keep your eyes peeled for trolls who are not open minded and block them once they show they’re unreceptive to civil discussion. Since the userbase is rather small, it works extremely well and makes your experience so much better.
Karma doesnt exist. So when you don’t agree with a user, insult their instance and launch a campaign to defederate from it.
What’s that called?
A reasonable and measured response
Docking Sounding Ligma
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.
Tankie: far right lunatic who delusionally believes they’re a communist (or trollingly roleplays as what they believe one to be), despite defending authoritarian oligarchic states like Russia or China.
For instance, the Lemmy devs (and lemmy.ml admins).
Centrist: better than you because choosing is a sin.
Which is why all religious zealots are the best, right?
Oh, wait, zealotry is only evil when it disagrees with your worldview, i forgot.
I’m just making a 30Rock reference
Ahh, the Purcell gambit, sorry was just a bit too realistic for lemmy.
beans, opossums, gul dukat bad, ummm, lemmings?
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
