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kbinners?
kbinators?
kbinizens?
kbinites?
kbinitors?

Just throwing names at the wall and seeing if something sticks. Thanks.

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[-] 0xtero@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

What about those who post here (and to Lemmy) from Mastodon? Or from Calckey or Bookwyrm?
Maybe we don't need to adopt Reddit culture at all? surprisedpikachu.jpg

[-] Ragnell@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Listen, as nerds we need a classification system.

[-] Odusei@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Demonyms are way older than reddit. It's not "reddit culture" to come up with a name for the users of a social media site, it's a practice that long predates reddit.

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What are users of old school forums called? Or myspace? Facebook? 4chan? I'm actually struggling to come up with a single similar forum or social media site that insisted on using a stupid cutesy nickname like reddit did; can you help me out here?

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

"Diggers" was one.

[-] Odusei@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

4channer was used a lot, same with farkers, and b3tards (not great to look back on).

[-] danielton@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Needs more jpeg.

[-] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

We are the Federati

[-] Maestro@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

We're humans. Let's embrace that instead of trying to label in- and outgroups 😊

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Coming up with a name is pretty nerdy to be honest. Might as well go full nerd and call us Star Fleet because we're a part of the Federation

[-] Flag@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thats.... not bad tbh! Ha.

[-] speck@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

No shade to lemmy instances, but definitely not Lemmites. There's an unhealthy trend right now to reduce the fediverse to just Lemmy (and lemmy.world, more specifically) that we should not encourage.

[-] starlinguk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I can't even see half the posts when I'm on a Lemmy instance. Kbin is the best one if you want to see everything.

[-] badgerking@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago
[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I thought we settled on Kbinauts.

Though I love how we're having this discussion every 4-5 days at the moment because of the rate we're growing and the number of us who weren't here yet the last time it was discussed! :)

[-] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Vulcan prefers Kbinauts (even with the bird logo)

[-] lavender@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

This whole 'we need a name and a mascot' deal has big 'Stop trying to make Fetch happen' vibes.

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

"Posters" will do. I don't really want to be stamped with a brand. I'm just a guy who happens to post stuff on the internet. My Mastodon posts are posts (not toots), my Kbin posts are likewise posts (not bins, although some might argue that they belong in one).

[-] birlocke_@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

This thread from a couple of weeks ago (specifically for kbin users) attempted to answer the same question. 'Kbinauts' seems to be the favourite but personally I think 'Kbinners' ('KTrashcans' for the yanks) best.

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

KTrashcans for the yanks

haha. This is great. I'm aussie, but I'm gonna start calling us KTrashies

[-] speck@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

From that thread, Fedinauts might be my fave. Relatively instance agnostic and keeps that space age, optimistic federated future vibe going

[-] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I was a fan of Kbinauts, but then the zeitgeist moved super fast once that bird logo got introduced.

Then voting went up for a name for the lil birdie, and surprisingly Kibby came out on top, but alongside Kebin and Bink. The poll for that should still be up over in m/redditmigration I think.

Now that I think about it, I don't see our name as netizens arising from the name of the mascot, just like how at reddit no one called themselves a derivative of "snoo."

[-] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

wait, what's wrong with kbinauts? I like kbinaut.

[-] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I like it too, but somehow kbinners got taken up, kbeans (ugh), and now this bird mascot's name is being thrown in the mix.

[-] bazpoint@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Actually quite like Fedditors. Acknowledges where most of us came from, while being something different. Can also be interpreted as 'feck-reddit-ors'. Is good.

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] Souler@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] pgm_01@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

K Holes 🤣

[-] Demiurge@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Ragnell@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Federati, Fedizens for general Fediverse, which includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey, Lemmy....etc... Lemmings for Lemmy users, Kbinauts for Kbin users.

I suggest Threadites (pronounced as rhyming with Deadites) as collective for Lemmy, Kbin, Beehaw and whatever other Fediverse Forum programs join the Threadiverse.

[-] Potatomache@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I imagine if the kbin bird gets a name we'd follow along so either, Kibbies/Binks/Kebins?

[-] ftgeva2@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] wave_walnut@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think of myself as a citizen of the fediverse.

[-] cloaker@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] xc2215x@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah we are Kbinners.

[-] bron@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My guess is that each platform will have its own smaller names applied to it (e.g. kbinners, lemmites, etc.) and each variant will be interchangeable, then as things settle down and the dust clears, there would be a more common, less "exclusive" name like "posters" as someone mentioned. The email comparison comes to mind, we don't go around calling each other "gmailers" or "outlookers", but addresses or emails.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

kbinauts is what I see

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Fediversers, activitypubers?

[-] inkican@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think of myself a Binster

[-] rasterweb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Threaditarians. Threadites. Threaditors.

[-] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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