or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word "proxy", "host", or "hub" is simpler

the specific terms aren't my point, just a discussion to see if we can come up with a better name

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[–] nix@merv.news 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i know discord servers are run on your own servers but us using the term would both be accurate and be understandable by the average person.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, calling Discord groups/communities/guilds "servers" is not accurate and is totally wrong. You cannot create your own Discord server and Discord would never let you.

It's like calling Facebook a website hosting, because you can create a "site" on it.

[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

…. Im talking about lemmy servers. Calling lemmy instances servers. I don’t care what people call discord servers im saying they already call them servers. So people will understand what a lemmy server is because they already know what a discord server is and the concept is similar enough they will immediately understand how lemmy servers work and can still communicate with one another.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I think I get it now.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't been on FB for several years, but ugh there was a while in the late 2010s when so many people over there were referring to FB groups as sites and just arghh arrghh aaarrgghhh.