It would tie in better with the email analogy, and it could show that they all just provide access to the same network.
What do you think?
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Go ahead. Try to force that upon Friendica that has called its instances “nodes” for almost 15 years now.
Or Hubzilla that not only calls them “hubs” but also resists any and all cultural or technological influences from anything that wasn’t created by Mike Macgirvin.
Also <insert Morpheus here> what if I told you that (streams) and Forte call them “communities”? You know, like Lemmy’s and PieFed’s “subreddits”?
I’m afraid that when I say „my Lemmy provider” people will think I’m referring to my drug dealer.
Lemmy and Molly (foss) are the most addictive. 🤣🤣
Servers are a better word for it imo. It is what it actually is and average people already understand servers from discord
Servers are a better word for it imo.
Agreed. When I explain Lemmy to my friends I describe instances as “servers.”
I was thinking the same. Provider is easier to understand, and used in daily life contexts.
- I changed my Internet provider
- This electricity provider offers better service
How would the word be used in our context? The Fediverse provider?
But I think I associate the word with money related activities and I’m not a fan of that.
I would think the jargon would be “I chose fedia.io as my Lemmy provider,” or similar for other federated platforms.
Oh god no. That’s like “I chose Burger King as my McDonald’s provider.”
I like it. The reasoning’s good.
I hate the term “instance”. It’s hopelessly geeky (it derives from object-oriented programming). It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.
It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.
Which is pretty much the main users of Lemmy lol
It’s probably too late for that now, but I do think that’s a better name
