I don't see how "thread" doesn't make sense. That's how it was in forums as well. I also think "article" is way worse than "link", because not every link is an article.

Magazine

The dictionary says:

A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.

I think it fits the literal definition of magazine, here on kbin a magazine is a collection of articles, stories, pictures or other features

Link

When you create a link you literally paste a link on the form that redirects to the article in another website

Thread - Post

A thread is a new topic. With your question you opened a new thread.

A post a single entry in a thread. Your question was the first post of your new thread, my comment is the second post in your thread.

Comment: to make a statement of one's opinion

Discuss: to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion

Most people participate to make a comment and that's all

Badges - Labels
I think badges don't work? So who cares?

They don't sound like broken English at all, they are very literal and self explanatory. Maybe you are bad at English?

Changing magazine to community is fine (though I don't really mind magazine).

I think thread should stay as is. Feels much more distinct than post, which could more easily refer to both threads & microblogs.

Link should stay. Makes it very clear what it does.

Post should definitely be changed, but I don't get why it can't just be microblog instead of blog. Makes it immediately clear what it's for since there's a microblogs tab in the header.

Commented is fine. Again, much more clear about what it means.

Badges don't really do anything yet tmk, so I'd hold off on renaming them.

Magazine makes sense as a differentiation from lemmy's community. The concept is different so a different word is needed. Thread feels like a throwback to reddit, but it makes sense in the threadverse concept.

I agree on blog though. There post feels cumbersome. Badges could probably use a rewording, but tag makes more sense to me there as an accepted word.

Some of these things are being discussed at the Codeberg. There's some issues opened like #406 - Rename "Microblog" in header to "Posts" for consistency., or other ones requesting feedback like #680 - Rename 'posts' to 'microposts' everywhere. Truly, the best place to put these ideas or thoughts is on the Codeberg. That's where the action is - but it never hurts to discuss here too, just may not be passed along.

I agree with changing magazine to community, but mostly for the sake of consistency across the fediverse. Changing posts to microposts or something similar will add some clarity, so it might be a good idea as well.

But the rest seems fine to me as is tbh.

/kbin plans to eventually support every content type from federated software, and because of this, we cannot actually reserve the name
post to only one type of it. Still, microblog posts/toots/tweets need to be renamed and I prefer to call them Notes. This is already used in ActivityStream dictionary, and in Misskey and ~~Calckey~~ Firefish.

Magazine ->Community

Strong agreement.

Link -> Article

Maybe Link -> Website even, 'cause it's not always an actual news article.

Thread -> Post

Agree, mainly because I think most of us would say "I'm going to post this on kbin" but I haven't found a verb I like for ...starting? a new 'thread' lol. "I'm going to thread this on kbin"??

And also for branding issues lol, vs that big company.

Post (In microblog) -> Blog

Room for improvement here, but good start I think.

Commented -> Discussed

I think Comments is fine. Discussion is fine. I actually think this is where "threads" could have been used lol, but let's not.

Badges -> Labels
Labels is good. Badges isn't quite right. Stamp? Banner? Flag?

i understand why people wanna go from magazine to community or maybe even subbin? but thats gonna suuuuck for mags with mag in their name like @MagHub D: