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OP was clearly talking about BDSM. Now he's too embarrassed to correct us and is continuing with this whole communities / magazine charade.
Ohh thus the /c/ that I see being referenced right?
Thanks for clarifying that!
Yup, although on kbin they're called "magazines", so their urls start with /m/, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration
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, theyβre 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.
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).
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.
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!
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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.
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Not short and snappy enough!!
...Comms? π€
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Piracy and Risa are 90% of the reason I'm here.
If they didn't want you to download stuff, they shouldn't have given you a cool title like "pirate."
Lmao! What would be a good alternate title in your opinion? :D
Corsair or privateer
Ooh, I like privateer. Sounds so official, just like they were back in the day π
Legitimate Salvager
Oh gosh no, we keep it Pirates. Yarrr!
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They wanted to build an utopian future without conflict and property, but they became Space Pirates in Cyberspace! :thememusicplays:
C/Risa is the reason I started watching Star Trek. Even without watching the show, they've got the best memes on lemmy.
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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.
You block piracy? Lol does getting shit for free bother you?
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?
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.
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Whereβs the mechanical keyboard communities? Not that I need to see any more kb things to waste my money on. π
Me too. And I newly moved from reddit. π
Also look at Privacy Guide this will be helpful.
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!
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.
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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
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. :)
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I like to call them sublemons.
What about sublemes
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.
[email protected] (i love this one, but lately the number of posts seems to be less frequent) [email protected] (usually friendly and interesting to see what is going on in other people's minds and participating in the discussions) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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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.
[email protected] is pretty good for tech news. Better than the subreddit.
See if your local area has a community too. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, there's not a lot going on in [email protected] but at least it exists?
possumpat.io/c/sideoftheroad
!sideoftheroad
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that's where lemmings live.
That said, I would recommend both [email protected] for the positive air and [email protected] for the negative crowd control.
The term for subs on Lemmy is burrows, since that's where lemmings live.
Absolutely not.
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