I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck

Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.

Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.

Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.

Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.

Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.

But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.