What nerd terms should one know while on lemmy?
Things we see all the time, but no one can really describe, like
Docker
Federated
Self host
Fork
Container
Instance
Flatpak
Tailscale
Distro
Wayland
Nginx
Etc.
Sure we can search but the terms are just so abstract I can't understand some of it.
*this is for helping some new users as well as myself -
All of them 1!1!1! It's all connected.
After you put your container in the flatpack it will fork itself into an nginx distro.
i use arch btw (arch linux distro)
We should list in jokes too.
Can't shit for a week
For reasons
Well these are all nerd terms, because most of the community in here consists of IT guys and people who use Linux, most of the time they are the same. You don't need to know what Docker, Self host, Fork, Container, Flatpak, Tailscale, Distro, Wayland and Nginx is, unless you are interested in IT.
Knowing Federated and Instance could be beneficial for the Lemmy users I think.
because most of the community in here consists of IT guys
Is this data that has been collected, or anecdotal?
Purely anecdotal
I think the only "required" one on your list is Instance: It's one out of many servers. Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.
I find it useful to think of it topologically like an IRC server, if you're familiar with how those work; many of them connect and share content - You're on an instance/server, but can interact with users and content from different ones.
The rest are more oriented towards Linux, servers (in general), and aren't really required for Lemmy use in general.
This is where I started to explain what a codebase fork is, but then I realized that I fucking hate typing on my phone.
Tailscale: a VPN -esque service that lets you connect networks together in fun and interesting ways. For instance: I can use tailscale to access my home network from my phone!
An instance is a specific computer a person uses .
Let's say lem.ee is still up and you login there and have an account there but we both browse the rpgmemes on .ttrpg
Lem.ee is an instance, lemmy.world is an instance the .ttrpg computer is an instance. Like different email servers , these computers all talk with each other to make it seamless. All of the computers use the Lemmy software.
Now lem.ee has shut down, users can't login there , but a new Lemmy instance could be created by someone and connect to the federated network.
But a university might run it's own instance of Lemmy, giving students an account and have their own communities which aren't publicly shared and they aren't federated.
People can say there's an issue with federation where people may leave comments on another computers community but they're not visible to users browsing others. E.g. users on lemmy.workd might see it and .ttrpg but not anywhere else. They are meant to but an issue like slow communication is preventing it not permissions as such.
A fork is a different version of software. Open source software licences allw people to modify and re release the programs.
two developers might have different visions of what a software should look like , and if they want to split and make their own versions, that would be a fork in the development of the program.
You can also look up terms you don't know on urbandictionary
Docker: it’s a container used as a sort of sandbox environment for running various tools
Federated: uses the activitypub protocol
Self host: Don’t use services in the cloud. Build your own
Fork: Derived from existing project (or process)
Container: Sandboxed part of your OS
Instance: There are multiple definitions but the one probably most relevant to you is a node of a federated network
Flatpak: No idea. I think this is Ubuntu’s containerized deliverable
Tailscale: I think this is a reverse proxy?
Distro: A flavor of Linux
Wayland: Succesor to X11. Gives you graphics on Linux
Nginx: Web server software. Alternative to Apache
Flatpaks: NOT Ubuntu's containerized deliverable. They use snaps. Flatpaks are more Fedora's thing. I know Mint uses flatpaks, and Silver blue relies heavily on them. Snaps v Flatpaks are like Coke v Pepsi. It's all just sugar water, but people care, for reasons.
You can also just gentoo and compile from source instead of remembering which distro uses which package lol
Tailscale is a tunneling service which allows to easily connect multiple different networks together. For example, if you have two computers in different locations, they can talk to each other as if they were in the same location using a tailscale network.