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I’m not calling them comms. find a better word if you don’t want to hear me say subs
Subs is fine by me, but /r is not.
why do you give a shit… are we acting like this isn’t costco reddit
It isn’t, if we wanted that we would have made sure that it is owned by one big company and doesn’t have separate instances.
I just hate when anyone uses a name that signifies they use some site - lemmings, imgurians, redditors, whatever. I am no more a lemming than I am a reader for reading books or an eater for having dinner.
Also when people say “substack” instead of newsletter, even about their own. Like, have some self respect – you’re doing all the work.
Genuine question as a former Redditer what are they called here on Lemmy?
Communities. Which has no convenient abbreviation.
Thank you
Comms
Communities
I know it’s a joke but there are probably users who get genuinely angry and unleash all kinds of undeserved abuse when they see this. Old habits are hard to break, so let’s be human.
It sounds bad though and it makes me think of subscriptions which are what a subgroup of communities unique to each user.
I have to remember that each time though it’s happening quite often now.
I try to let people know gently that they are using the wrong term, which I think is reasonable though I suppose my tone might be misinterpreted.
I like ‘subfeddit’, or we could go another way and call the something like ‘district’ or ‘constituency’, coz each one has a rep haha
To be fair, most of us have been “that lemming” at one point or another.
Using “lemmings” is arguably more wrong - there are plenty of people on the fediverse who are not using lemmy.
Excellent [counter-]point.
fedfellows
Fedows
Fedophiles
FEDoras?
M’Feddit
Feds
Listen, “comms” is a terrible name for this concept. I’m calling them subs until something better comes along.
Same here.
I’m calling them cums
And you’re a cummer
And proud of it
Ohh, I like Subs. Yeah, I can get with that.
Lol how so, Lemmy (the software) calls them “communities” and comms is a nice and shortened version of that
I’m not saying subs is perfect. But comms has a much more predominant existing meaning: “communications.” It’s not clear what you’re referring to. While “sub” does have some existing meanings like “subscription” or “submissive,” those aren’t as pervasive meanings, and in my mental map it’s more associated with a subreddit or Lemmy community, so that’s what I’m going with.
Both of those words (community and comms) have common meanings that are adjacent but distinct in important ways from the Lemmy jargon meaning. That makes them confusing and awkward to use; what if you want to talk about the Lemmy community at large or some subset of it? You would have to go way out of your way to make sure all ambiguity is removed that you might be talking about a “community” as in the subreddit equivalent. Comms is not as bad in this way I guess.
That’s exactly why, actually. It’s too easy, like a kid naming their dog Mr. Woofs or naming a car Sally. I feel we can be far more creative.
I can’t, but I’m sure someone can.
What do lemmings live in. …holes? Warrens? Hives?
I could get behind “warrens”
I’ll shorten it to wars.
We’d become twice as interesting to people who’ve never heard of us.
Have you seen the wars on Lemmy?
Ah yes child. The war of the wars, I was there to witness it…
Seeing as how roughly zero percent of us are neurotypicals, yes that tracks. 😎
But on Reddit, sub is short for subreddit. How is this any different?
Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it’s fine in context.
But I can SUBScribe to them 😔.
And then the community would be one of your subscriptions. Otherwise it’s just a community.
i call them subs because they are full of submissives
Say that to my FUCKING FACE…
…
But this time use a growly menacing voice, and call me filthy names!! WAIT, I need to put on my gimp suit first.
Instead of “sub” , I propose “dom”.
Please like and domscribe
As I have been calling them sublemmys because it amuses me, the change to domlemmys should be an easy one.
As the singular authority on nicknames for communities, I’ll allow it.
Remember the people who tried “sublemmys” or something stupid like that
Shout out to my very inactive Community community, !communitytv@lemmy.world.
Pretty much the same vibe around here too.
Can’t help but see “.ml” plastered over Chevy’s face.
Lmao, 1000% and now I cant unsee it
who do you think each major character is?
Troy and Abed give dbzero vibes (in a good way) but Abed may lean more sh.itjustworks (also in a good way)
Each instance assigned to a character? I was actually just wondering that, I think I’ll have to do a rewatch to do it right, but I think .world would either be Jeff or Britta for sure lmao
britta is hexbear for sure
Makes sense
I like to imagine I am a Troy or a Jeff or even a Shirley, but I’m really just a Leonard.
Pop what, Magnitude? Pop what?? 😭
I’m withdrawing from the race, I think a political career would interfere with my drug dealing
Could be worse, could be a Garret.
I’ve seen your prescription socks.
I got a picture of your old nose; it was a lateral move!
Calling them communities makes you streets ahead
Eh, I don’t know that this is something we need to gatekeep about to be honest. “Comms” doesn’t really roll off the tongue so if people want to keep saying “subs” I’m not going to correct them, it’s not like anyone would misconstrue what they mean. Plus we can’t even settle for a name amongst ourselves with Mbin keeping on referring to them as “magazines”.
Same. I call them comms, I’ve seen someone call them munnis which I thought was cute and more fun to say, but a bit less intuitive, but I’m not gonna correct anyone :)
Sub is fine to me in both contexts. sub(scriptions) or sub(forums) but “sublemmy” or variation just feel forced to me
What if we refer to them as cums?
I think that’s phonetically correct.
I think this actually works really well for the concept of “Lemmy tell you” “Lemmy show you”. Lemmy cum.
LMAO guys please don’t do this. I don’t want this to be my legacy.
Too, late hombre. Now share with us your favourite Lemmy cums.
Karma = cum
All these cumwhores on /c/lemmyshitpost
I’m tagging you as Lemmy cum.
JFC LOL
You only have yourself to blame.
Sub-comms. 😎
