Kbinners? Binnies? Kbinators?
Yep, I think a lot of us are trying to coalesce under a flavor of this name. @digitallyfree even created us some mascots that I think we could sticker out in the real world! https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/40257/Introducing-the-Kbeanauts-my-idea-of-a-Kbin-mascot
I vote for k-beans!
I’m just gonna come out and say it because I think people don’t realize and it may be specific to US - if kbeans sticks we will be called “kbeaners” by trolls until the end of time, as it includes a racial slur aimed at hispanic/latino people
Honestly I bet a fair amount of people will even unintentionally use it without realizing. And if we have the ability to choose, I’d rather our nickname not be something that invites people to easily combine it with a slur
/u/gus is right - ‘kbeaner’ contains a loaded slur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaner one thats been around for a long time. It is not one I was aware of until recently.
Seems like an arbitrary “trolls gonna troll” sort of thing that really shouldn’t have a high priority.
That being said - I’m not a fan of the moniker anyway. We can do better.
I’ve been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can’t think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.
There are several Lemmy instances called Feddit though, so that fedditor would almost certainly be seen as referring to them.
https://feddit.de
https://feddit.it
https://feddit.dk
I’m also not a fan of using terms referring to reddit. Can’t we leave reddit in the past instead?
If we really want to get away from reddit, we could follow the standard convention when it comes to user designations. A person who uses
Facebook is called a Facebook user. A person who uses Twitter is called a Twitter user. A person who uses Android is an Android user. Reddit is somewhat unique among the most popular websites as people identify other users like they’re in a fandom rather than people who have an account on a particular website. I’m not sure if other fedditors want to even think about themselves as part of a fediverse fandom. I do think redditor was a fortuitous term for reddit to happen upon because it flows from standard convention (it sounds a lot better than reddinite, reddinese, reddan). If you start from wanting to designate a user of the Fediverse or ActivityPub protocol, I think Fedinite or Feditor are two obvious choices. I went with Fedditor with the double consonant as an homage, but I think if migration was coming from a website where everyone was just called “Forum Users”, Feditor would still be a top suggestion.
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.
kbinauts is one I’ve seen that I don’t hate. Kbinners is probably my preferred.
Kbinauts.