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[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with community, the point is Lemmy created the term the same as Kbin created magazine. Not every microblogging site in the fediverse calls them β€œtoots” for example.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but community does a good job of explaining what it is conceptually with a word everyone understands, while being "vendor neutral" as it were.

"magazine" tells me fuck all, I'm not even certain what it's supposed to be.