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I've seen some people getting genuinely uncomfortable at the recent discourse. Just wanted to point out there's more than one kind of weird.

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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Unrelated but I just wanted to say thanks for giving me the word ‘instance’. Been struggling to find a word besides ‘subreddit’ 😖

I’m a fucking idiot: community is not a hard word lmao

I, too, am an idiot. Community never crossed my mind.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Community and Instance actually have a hard meaning here. Communities are the equivalent of subreddits, while instances are the equivalent of reddits. Reddit only had the one instance of course.

I wonder if mastodon has communities. Or is there a more twitter thing they do?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I think mastodon is more akin to Twitter, but I can’t really say as I haven’t used it. Thanks for that clarification though, it is a pretty important distinction.