this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I feel like a much talked about criticism of getting started with Lemmy is that the 'average person' doesn't understand it. I see a lot of technical people, myself included, use words that the 'average person' shies away from. Mentioning concepts like servers and Fediverse requires some background knowledge. I propose we start using 'providers' instead of servers, as it helps understand the function of it instead of the implementation. There might be more words that could be confusing, so let's have a conversation about them. Are there any you recognize as being able to be simplified, or is this a non issue?

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I like that - a Lemmy provider, where Lemmy is not a place but a type of thing/service, like "an email" or "a website"