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New Lemmy user here...What terminology should I know? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know the obvious things like federation and fediverse, but do we say upvote/downvote, updoot, karma? I hate to bring up the software that must not be named, but I don’t know what else to call things.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The game

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[–] Omgboom -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Docking Sounding Ligma

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like fun.

Joking aside, if you want to list items vertically without having to input a line break twice, insert three spaces before the line break:

Docking
Sounding
Ligma

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Nazi: When somebody on lemmy says this, they aren't talking about literal jackboot historical underlings of Adolf Hitler, but instead referring to anyone who isn't firmly on the progressive side of the political aisle.

Tankie: I'm still trying to figure this one out. Apparently it's not referring to tank roles in online games. It supposed to be insulting, despite sounding very laudatory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Mostly people who get called nazis are saying fascist stuff. So while the term nazi isn't correct it is meant as an insult to their ideolegy by drawing a line to past fascists.

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