Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls?

• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called “groups”, which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I’m not an expert.

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  • ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for clearing that up

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.

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  • ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s a community, OK. If it’s something else, I definately want to know that too.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a community

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  • ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was exactly my thought when asking. But it seems it’s the former.

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