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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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Think of it like a nesting doll.
Instances have communities (or magazines).
Communities have posts.
Posts have threads.
I made a comment thread on your post to this community on the Lemmy.World instance. Other than the usage of instance for a social media type website, this has been the lingo of the net for several decades. You would have simply replaced "instance" with "specific website." (Though the usage of "instance" to refer to a duplicate server has been around since at least the mid to late 90's if not longer)
Mbin has a specific and different meaning for the term "post" as used in the OP, so it's one place where translating from lemmy or other "generic internet forum" jargon doesn't work. It's for microblog posts associated with a magazine that are independent of threads in that magazine.
E.g.: https://fedia.io/m/firefox/microblog has "posts" in Mbin terminology -- though if I had to guess I think most Mbin users will use the qualified "microblog post" or similar if they actually mean to reference the Mbin meaning of the term.