Subs? Not sure if that’s the right term on here.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      711·
      1 year ago

      OP was clearly talking about BDSM. Now he’s too embarrassed to correct us and is continuing with this whole communities / magazine charade.

    • Vej@lemm.eeOP
      52·
      1 year ago

      Ohh thus the /c/ that I see being referenced right?

      Thanks for clarifying that!

        • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
          434·
          1 year ago

          Yep, but jeez, Magazine is a pretty terrible name for what it’s attempting to describe… Don’t get me wrong, they can call their communities whatever the hell they want but it feels like they’re bending over backwards to avoid saying ‘community’ only to settle on a name that doesn’t even make sense. Magazines are something meant to be consumed, they’re a one way street. Communities on the other hand are a place where you’re ideally both reading and contributing. Lemmy/kbin doesn’t work without active users contributing content and joining discussions. At least reddit’s jargon had some logic to it reddit -> subreddit aka sub-community on reddit.

          • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            I agree, and I still don’t even know if they mean magazine as in the publication or as in the thing that holds ammunition - both make about the same amount of sense to me.

            I find kbin more confusing overall, e.g. how you have both boost and voting available, but then for short posts boost is more obviously placed (since the up/downvote buttons are way over on the right).

            • livus@kbin.social
              8·
              1 year ago

              They mean as in publication.

              Boost is favourite/retweet.

              When I first joined kbin the boost button had an upvote function and the upvote button had a favourite function and didn’t affect upvotes, but the dev swapped them because we were all too confused.

              • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Ah, they’d changed it? That explains my confusion - I already had a Mastodon account so I was familiar with the boost concept, apart from how it worked in a threaded setup.

                Anyway, yeah - confusing!

                • livus@kbin.social
                  4·
                  1 year ago

                  I think we have it because Kbin federates with Mastodon via the microblog section - this is also why it has two kinds of posts, “articles” (like lemmy posts) and “posts” (like Mastodon toots).

                  It’s super confusing at first but once you get used to it, it’s pretty cool.

            • andrewta@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              Magazine like you put into a weapon actually applies very well to certain communities if you really think about it.

          • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
            111·
            1 year ago

            The original definition of “magazine” was simply “warehouse”. A place where you amassed a bunch of stuff. This usage is still around, but it’s rare.

            At the time, the military was perhaps the most prominent entity creating these well-stocked warehouses, so the specific linking of “magazine” to “military warehouse” was a natural progression. And as we all are familiar now, it later morphed into a word to describe a chamber of bullets. In a sense, a tiny little military warehouse you attach to your gun.

            The definition referring to a paper catalog getting mailed to your house full of random written articles comes from one very specific one, named Gentleman’s Magazine. It was named that because it thought itself a magazine (a warehouse) of information.

            I assume kbin was thinking of the latter when using the term to describe its communities. Though, considering the right-wing bias of its target audience, I expect the wordplay with the ammunition definition was also intended.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ok, and what how do you shorten it? No way I’m typing it out all the time it comes up. Comms seem to be appropriate

    • Vej@lemm.eeOP
      39·
      1 year ago

      If they didn’t want you to download stuff, they shouldn’t have given you a cool title like “pirate.”

    • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 year ago

      Apparently you and I have polar opposite tastes in those areas. Risa was the first thing I blocked and I’ve been slowly working my way through blocking all the Piracy communities.

      I’m here for formula 1, mechanical keyboards, and obscure stuff like weirdly specific playlists.

        • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
          164·
          1 year ago

          No, but not being able to have a reasonable discussion with another person without them resorting to nonsense arguments of no merit or personal attacks does bother me.

          I have made the personal choice that YouTube premium is a valuable service to me and that I would rather pay for it than go through the rigmarole of PiHole/ad blockers/ripping.

          Apparently that makes me a sheep, retard, loser, bitch to corporations, boot licker, dick, uneducated, fuckwad. Just to name a few.

          I believe downloading a digital copy of your property is 100% your right. ONLY after you have paid full price for it in a legal manner and if at all possible in physical media.

          Apparently that means I’m a slave to the media, a Republican(?), don’t believe in personal rights, and am advocating for a return to absolute monarchy’s.

          I believe that it is better to pay for services (even if they are created by mega corporations) and give money directly to the content creators whenever possible. Disney/Marvel, for instance, is massive and has many issues. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t create things that never existed before and deserve to be paid.

          Apparently I’m no better than a terrorist against human rights, have no decency, must have had brain damage, and am begging to be ass raped by the elite just to be told I’m a good little consumer.

          I believe that the definition of a hypocrite is somebody spouting their beliefs that all ads are evil, mega - corporations deserve to die, and that no content service deserves their money and then also screaming about work reform, and not getting paid a fair living wage, all jobs matter, etc.

          Apparently this makes me a proponent for being a wage slave, a blinded consumerist, a white collar elitist who was raised to keep the people down, and a politician dick/cunt sucker, and a worshiper of alphabet, apple, Facebook, twitter and the like.

          I loathe what reddit became but the general level of discourse was far more reasonable and measured then what I have experienced here on Lemmy. It’s actually frustrating. What happened to being able to disagree with someone and talk about it in measured responses and open discourse?

          • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
            8·
            1 year ago

            I feel like you’re the one sane person who’s willing to voice their opinions. While I do agree that piracy is a service problem in many cases, it’s genuinely insane how quickly the goalpost changes when the service in question is paid. Not enough people realize that creatives can’t make content without a budget to work with, and that budget has to come from somewhere.

            • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
              41·
              1 year ago

              It feels like goalpost moving has become a national past time for most places.

              The thing I currently struggle with, but haven’t found an answer to, is deciding where the balance lies between affordable services and content creators earning an appropriate living.

              I absolutely love Spotify. My current job has me listening to music for nearly 11 hours a day not including what gets played at home. Leaving aside the issue of discoverability, if I had to buy all the different albums I listen to from all the different artists I listen to my music budget would be a significant percentage of my yearly income.

              I am keenly aware that Spotify does not pay the musicians well. The current compromise that I have is I buy albums or merch from the artists that I listen to the most or up and comings I want to support. Not perfect but it works right now.

              • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
                2·
                1 year ago

                I mean other services do pay music creators a lot more, namely Tidal and Apple Music. My issue is that I hate the idea of supporting Apple, and Spotify has unique social features that other services don’t.

      • Zak8022@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        Where’s the mechanical keyboard communities? Not that I need to see any more kb things to waste my money on. 😂

      • SSTF@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        It’s usually a great place, but if you wear a Bikini there, Worf turns into a supervillain who controls the weather.

  • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
    572·
    1 year ago

    Superbowl is a great little sub, the main person behind it makes all these fantastic posts full of information and photos- I’ve learnt so much about owls in the last few weeks!

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        12·
        1 year ago

        This was funnier on reddit where there could be only one “superbowl” sub and it was taken by enthusiasts of superb owls. It is less funny on a platform where “superbowl” on other instances can still be a community for Super Bowl fans.

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I am glad! Lemmy needs more bright little corners of things to make people smile. It’s good to follow politics and news and tech, but those things are seldom positive stories.

        With nobody else posting, I decided to make it what I wanted to see on Lemmy, so while I do post adorable but deadly birds, I also try to teach about them so we care about saving them and to spotlight the people that care for them when they’re injured.

        Sometimes I’ll post about environmental concerns if it’s more important than usual, but it’s mainly just to give everyone, including myself, something to look forward to seeing.

        If you’re non-US, I try to they’re in owls from around the world a few times a week, and if you have any questions it there’s something you want to see, just let me know!

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          Alright! Thank you! I really appreciate all your work and I enjoy reading the stories about the birds themselves and the teaching info too. It’s definitely a great community that I didn’t know I needed until I joined, it’s very positive like you said.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Between this and my crosspost to !aww@lemmy.ml, this explains the higher number of subscribers this week. I was wondering what was going on!

      Thanks for the promotion! I’m glad it’s something you think others should see.

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    302·
    1 year ago

    I’ve had nothing but praise in the past, but I don’t really know you that way and I don’t go around advertising it

  • donuts@kbin.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    Shameless plug, but if you’re into retro gaming at all then come check out kbin.social/m/fpgagaming.

    It’s the spiritual successor to my old somewhat popular subreddit of the same name where we cover topics related to programmable logic-based retro game hardware. If using bespoke (i.e.: Analogue Pocket) or open source (i.e.: MiSTer) hardware for high-accuracy emulation of retro gaming systems is something that you might be into, then fpgagaming is the new place on the fediverse to go. :)

  • Papanca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    Here are some random communities that you may enjoy. As general tip: look for things you enjoy. For instance, there are plenty of communities about privacy and open source, food, climate, gaming, browsers, plants and animals, news, politics, sports, memes, you name it. I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

    !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world (i love this one, but lately the number of posts seems to be less frequent) !asklemmy@lemmy.world (usually friendly and interesting to see what is going on in other people’s minds and participating in the discussions) !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca !aww@lemmy.ml !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities…

      Hmm, I don’t really get that. Most of the time “trending communities” seem to be newly-created communities with little if any content. Considering how common it is for people to grab a community name and sit on it indefinitely, I feel like the ‘trending detection’ formula could be tweaked to display newer communities with solid growth, instead.

      …or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

      I salute the spirit of that, but the number of healthy communities across the FV seems pretty limited so far. Sure, it’s not that hard to find ghost communities with search tools (I tend to use this one), but that’s kind of a bittersweet feeling.

  • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    That all depends on what you’re interested in. I’m assuming you’ve come from reddit, so you could try sub.rehab to find new homes for your subs, although tbh I don’t know if it’s up to date or not - there have been some instances die so the communities had to move.

    • Cras@feddit.uk
      12·
      1 year ago

      The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that’s where lemmings live.

      Absolutely not.

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              It stands for “reddit,” which was actually the official name they used for subreddits. They were actually supposed to be just called “reddits” (so like, “come visit the Gaming reddit!”), but that’s stupid so nobody called them that. The “/r/” is a vestige of that.

              Quick Google search:

              We actually called them “reddits” for a while. So you’d read your reddit on reddit, and maybe you’d reddit on your reddit on Reddit and… well that’s a lot of reddit-ing (the r/ is a vestige of this time as well). But that got pretty confusing, so we moved to “subreddit” (like sub-domain, but… reddit).

              Which, according to Google’s AI, comes from this, but it’s reddit so I’m not going to bother reading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sta5wl/why_is_subreddit_or_a_brief_history_of_the/

              • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                I know, just my point is people don’t always and don’t have to be conformative. It’s just one of those “it’s catching on” things. You and everyone may call it what one wants (nothing in TOS restricting that, as if I had to check), not sure why some things don’t sit well with certain people. I can link to my main source, but the OP/question was deleted, so yeah.

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that’s where lemmings live.

      Shit. That’s good.