Honestly, while I like Kbin and understand what "Magazine" means, it would make a lot more sense and would've been easier to onboard if they'd also gone with "Community" it's more intuitive.
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Kinda more liking the lemmy terminology.
Specially because Kbin is way smaller than lemmy and kbin kinda makes it hard to search for lemmy content.
What i mean is this example here from right now
Kbin https://i.imgur.com/tMjblnl.png ( no lemmy entries )
Lemmy.world https://i.imgur.com/7MmHcak.png
Another
Kbin https://i.imgur.com/PVfPDts.png ( No lemmy again )
Lemmy https://i.imgur.com/2NPZ1Cc.png ( tons of Lemmy communitys + Kbin )
User size Lemmy is also way , waaay bigger than Kbin.
lemmy
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Kbin
Use the search field in the Magazine tab on kbin if you want to find magazines/communities. You'll find plenty of Lemmy communities with that.
I don't think it matters. The whole point of federation is you can have systems with front end that looks like users want and backend still talk, so doesn't matter what the front end decides to call it's bits and bobs and is more a feature than a bug
I agreee. With email, there’s different email websites I can use, but it would put me off if I made a gmail account, and everything was labelled differently there compared to thte other email websites.
Like if inbox was called something really strange, I just think it would put me off a lot. I use kbin, and even I think it would help if these were renamed. Kbin is new too! Only a month old, so I don’t even know if the developers felt strongly about calling it a magazine or just needed to label all of these in a way that made sense to them.
But yeah I try to be inclusive and use “communities/magazines” but it feels kind of ridiculous because it’s so long. I don’t even like “communities” because it is so long to type…I like “forums” for both. It makes sense because they are forums, and it’s short. I don’t mind “communities” though, and it would be so great if kbin wants to consider relabelling, but they technically also don’t have to and I still will use it.
But I still think it’s the smart thing to do to make it easier for others to use. Should try to decrease friction so people can use their tool to do other things, rather than spend so much time figuring out how to use the tool.