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How do we call kbin users? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Cloudless@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Kbinners? Binnies? Kbinators?

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[โ€“] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I've been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.

  1. Between Kbin and Lemmy, there's already two choices of software platforms for Reddit-esque link aggregators that work together. In the future there may be more. I think the term should be inclusive.
  2. Fedditor is play on redditor, a widely used term for users of the privately owned Reddit. A fedditor is a user of a Fediverse alternative.
  3. Since ActivityPub is an underlying protocol that interfaces with the rest of the Fediverse, I think emphasizing the Fediverse aspect and the "reddit-esque" aspect is more important than the specific software platform.
  4. People may use different terms for Kbin vs Lemmy vs future alternatives (or ones I just don't know about), but they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of. I think if any term becomes widespread, it should be an inclusive term that fall underneath a more general term such as Fedditor.
[โ€“] solomoncaygnuyou@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I like this idea. A term that is site-agnostic is a good idea since there are so many potential names for any given instance.

There's also just no elegant way to turn "kbins.social" into a term that rolls off the tongue. "k-beans" and similar terms are just awkward and I can't see them being adopted en masse.

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