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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 -

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most of these are specifically Linux or developer things. While they are nerds, they're just one very specific subset of the nerd kingdom. You don't necessarily need to know what these are unless you're getting into self-hosting, Linux, or software development.

Federated is the only term that might be useful to a general Lemmy user. It just describes the way that Lemmy talks to itself (through instances sharing posts with each other to make the separate websites run as one service) or to other services like Mastodon or the like, which are part of the larger "Fediverse."