forum works, board also works. Instances are new to me and interesting.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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Instances are effectively just different versions of the site, they all communicate with each other and display the same data (roughly), like someone said in a different post, think of it like Email, wherever you made your account being your host domain (An example being look at mine and your username, you are posting from Beehaw, while I'm from Sh.itjust.works, different instances, same content.)
I like board. Communities is too long, and coms sound like communication which armies use, magazines/mags is a bit odd and may be mistaken with the obvious gun reference. Forum is like the pre digg forums (like hardforum.com).
Yeah I'm still pretty confused tbh! So I'm on kbin, you have kbin next to your name too OP, but then the sidebar has reddthat.com and linux@lemmy.ml?
Does this mean we both signed up at kbin but the subreddit equivalent is linux (on Lemmy.ml)? But then how does reddthat.com come into it?
This is a post to linux community (@linux@lemmy.ml) by user falcoignis (@falcoignis@reddthat.com). You're reading it on kbin since it has federated this post. The default "front page" shows federated feed (Threads).
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OP is on reddthat (@falcoignis@reddthat.com), which is a Lemmy instance, and the community this post is on is !linux@lemmy.ml. Not sure what's up with kbin appearing next to OP's name for you, might be incidental because of kbin's UI or something.
Edit: just looked on kbin for myself, no idea what is up with that honestly, but I see what you're talking about as well.
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