Based on your feedback I would encourage you to try Zap. About half these things have been dealt with in the interface and it was designed around this specific use case - being much more approachable by friends and family for basic social networking than Hubzilla, which was designed for a different purpose and has a lot of moving parts. Anyway I'll provide some notes on a couple of specific items from your list. .

plink = Permalink. The definitive source of the information located on the origin server.
llink = Local link. A pointer to a copy of the information on your server.
mid = message id. ActivityStreams/ActivityPub permalink. This is where you can get the JSON object (machine-readable representation). On most platforms it is the same URL as the permalink but this isn't guaranteed.

Anyway, I agree those terms are very confusing and could be improved. I'll put this on my zap development list.

Every post should have a "link to source" in the article action menu. I believe this points to the permalink and I often share these links by right clicking and copying the link rather than left click and visiting.  This is the link you nearly always want and that's the recommended way of getting it onto the clipboard for sharing on other services. For phones I think you need to long click instead of right click.

The poorly named links in the "View Source" menu are mostly there for developers to compare how different sites render the contents for display. View Source exists for a more technical audience to examine the structure and rendering details; and if you're an admin you might also have a link to various internal object encodings. But I do agree the names will just leave you scratching your head if you're not a developer.


Channel suggestions are based initially on how many of your friends you have in common (when permissions allow).  We randomise these slightly in the suggestions widget to keep it from showing the same two channels forever. In the case of Hubzilla this list is "seeded" by volunteers who opt-in from their channel settings page ; so we always have suggestions even for somebody new with no friends at all. In zap, I got rid of this "seed" list as it can be manipulated for evil; and also extended the suggestions to include how many matching profile keywords you have with somebody. So if you list "linux" as a profile keyword, you may find other folks with "linux" in their profile in their suggestions - even if you have no friends in common at all.