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This glossary should help you to understand special terms on ocelot.social networks.
It's a list of of people who are discriminated against people who are not listed. At ocelot.social, the term blacklist stands for a list of blocked users.
An error in the code of a software that makes users and developers angry. Should you discover a bug in the network please report it to the support staff.
Short for Frequently Asked Questions, are a collection of pages that give answers to frequently asked questions.
A request to add a software feature.
The term is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe". It's a is a network of interconnected computer servers that are independently hosted but can communicate with each other.
The brand name of an online platform for the development of open source software.
A list of words and terms and their explanations or translations, so something like this very page here.
A means to contact and/or notify someone in the network by using his user name.
see Tag
Also called "hyperlink". A reference to a resource in the World Wide Web. This can be a website, a document, a video, an image, a sound or another kind of data file. Links are often underlined and appear in a different colour such as blue, so they can be recognised as such.
Programming code that can be viewed, modified, shared and used. Open source licenses protect computer programs under copyright law and permit commercial use, for example in the form of professional support, training offers or consulting services. Ocelot.social is open source software.
A published contribution.
In the world of IT it means a released software version.
Also known as "hashtag". An especially marked keyword ("tag") for searching matching content in social networks. "Hash" means the number sign which is a prefix of those tags.
On ocelot.social-Networks you can use those tags in posts or contributions to provide a one-click keyword search to other users.
Example: #world-peace
Short for Uniform Resource Locator, which generally means an Internet address. It starts by the access protocol – for example http, https or ftp – followed by the real address.
Example: https://ocelot.social/login/
The World Wide Web – or just Web – is a subsystem of the Internet. It consists of so-called hypertext documents (for example written in the programming language HTML) that can be connected through links and which are transferred by means of communication protocols like HTTP or HTTPS.