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[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, at this point you're talking about things I don't understand. The nomenclature I'm familiar with is "instances" and "communities". I don't know what a magazine, multiple, or subgroup refers to in this context.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Magazines are what kbin refers to as its "communities" (lemmy) or subreddits. I just said subgroup as a general term but I can see how non-tech people can be confused. If these places want to interact with each other they need common names.

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call myself non-tech per se, but the shifting terminology conflicts with my attempts to be precise. As a new user of the fediverse it's become kinda clear that kbin has some of its own culture going on, since things are a little more established over there. When you mentioned multiples or subgroups, I assumed that was analogous to multireddits in some way, which isn't something I've seen implemented yet.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you search a community on lemmy right now and change the scope to all there will be multiple "sublemmys", or whatever you want to call these collections of related posts. I see that as being a little bit of an issue for mass adoption. I apologize, thats all I meant. Kbin does have its own thing, I'm subscribed to some stuff and have my own account over there as well. Its a little more complex that is true. I'm actually amazed all these different "sites" are interacting like this.