Like, obviously around here you don’t subscribe to a subreddit, were not on reddit.
What about referring to the Original Poster as OP?
What about etiquette like marking edited posts and comments with “Edit: added words or explanations of edits made”?
Most of those things came long before Reddit and still apply to just being online in general. Only the word “subreddit” is unique to Reddit, as well as certain in-jokes (“when does the narwhal bacon?”). Really thinking about it, I’m not sure Reddit was ever really unique at all. It just has a lot of users.
And to be fair, that whole narwhal bacon thing was a weird fad of internet culture as a whole, not just on Reddit (think pre-2014 internet imo)
The narwal bacon meme itself was specifically reddit, as it was a deeply cringey joke post someone made as a shibollith to try to identify redditors in the real world.
It was the perfect mix of very awkward, very stupid, and weirdly preening that got people to “ironically” use it for a bit on reddit, which then spread wider.
You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, …)
Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, …
Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn’t always work.
I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.
The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don’t work as smooth (yet). And we’re only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.
Comms = subs, though it’ll take a while to catch on I guess.
OP is OP. Though even in Reddit it was somewhat interchangeable between the person who created the post, and the person who posted the top comment of whatever discussion is ongoing.
Edit etiquette should stay. Ninja edits are rude, unless you’re fixing typos. Even edits made instantly after a post/comment can sometimes show up much later than the original post due to federation latency.
Comms
I don’t think I have seen anyone use that here.
I’ve been using “muni / munis” and only once has it caused any confusion.
That probably would have taken a second for me without context. I don’t know if there is a good short for community. Or if one is even needed, really.
OP is far older than reddit. Older than 4chan even. It’s not site specific.
I didn’t mean to imply it was. I’m just replying in the context of OP’s post
This is interesting. I’ve only spent time on reddit and then here, so I didn’t know it was a well known thing on other sites
I do wish we had that three minute window reddit had where you cold fix typos or something without it appearing as edited. Happens to me so often but I usually jsut fix them.
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That depends on your instance. Kbin gives that grace period, or at least when viewing from Kbin. It should be easy enough to implement, if the instance owner is willing.
Edit: this is an edit to demonstrate.
Except with federation, there’s no guarantee the edit promulgates as fast as the original.
Maybe they could delay the federation in the first place for a couple mins?
Or maybe we could just proofread our shit.
Probably not though; I myself am terrible about that.
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is from Reddit and we should replace sublemmy with something else
It seems that Communities is the standard here
Its way to late to fix, but instance => community and subreddit => subcommunities would have kept some of the nomenclature similar.
And instances being a community seems to be how beehaw and others want to work anyway.
‘instance’ is already a term used by other federated platforms though. it wouldnt be any less confusing
Well, yeah, like I said, way to late to change. Programmers are notoriously bad at naming things, but once named, its hard to change.
It might have made the “Which instance do I join?” question a bit more intuitive and self-answerable if it was instead:
Q: Which community do I join? A: Oh, obvious, the one that seems to match my IRL community/values.
(If its not obvious, I am also a programmer, so any opinions on usability and human behaviour are also completely detached from reality 😄)
i agree with you now
Not sure I agree with me, but ok :)
I love the lack of karma farming here. Keeping votes local / contained is a small but important change.
And yes, I know there are work-arounds for people who care about that shit, but making it non-default sets the tone.
I really wish people would stop talking about R.
Fucking get over it
like it or not but lemmy and reddit are obviously simililar platforms, so expect parallels to be drawn
I choose not
