Ciel the Cozy Goth PrinceRandom Masto thought: I see a lot of people try to replace "instance" with different, non-technological metaphors to try to explain it, but honestly, the term I've had the most success with is "server", especially with people used to playing stuff like Minecraft where it's common for people to run their own servers for online multiplayer. I've never read up on the technicals enough to know if this is exactly correct, but.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri 
@skysailor We spent a lot of time early on using game server terminology but it didn't pan out as universally accessible enough concepts.
Katrani Merack@InspectorCaracal @skysailor huh, that's vaguely surprising. Seems liked it's be at least adjacent-ish to enough people to work.
@katrani @skysailor 
People complained about it, at least. I was supporting using server load style indicators to mark sites on joinmastodon by population and Eugen was trying to do it but I guess that got shot down
People complained about it, at least. I was supporting using server load style indicators to mark sites on joinmastodon by population and Eugen was trying to do it but I guess that got shot down