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Pretty much the same vibe around here too.
I like to imagine I am a Troy or a Jeff or even a Shirley, but I’m really just a Leonard.
I’ve seen your prescription socks.
I got a picture of your old nose; it was a lateral move!
I’m withdrawing from the race, I think a political career would interfere with my drug dealing
Could be worse, could be a Garret.
Shout out to my very inactive Community community, !communitytv@lemmy.world.
Calling them communities makes you streets ahead
Remember the people who tried “sublemmys” or something stupid like that
Instead of “sub” , I propose “dom”.
Please like and domscribe
As the singular authority on nicknames for communities, I’ll allow it.
As I have been calling them sublemmys because it amuses me, the change to domlemmys should be an easy one.
Listen, “comms” is a terrible name for this concept. I’m calling them subs until something better comes along.
I’m calling them cums
And you’re a cummer
And proud of it
If I tell someone to “please check out my cum” I might get into some trouble.
Watch the new meat canyon
Ohh, I like Subs. Yeah, I can get with that.
Same here.
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.
Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it’s fine in context.
I’m ok with subs because you subscribe to communities, but yeah I have had to unlearn some habits from reddit
I’m not calling them comms. find a better word if you don’t want to hear me say subs
Also we subscribe to them, so they’re subs just as easily as comms. I never use subreddit or /r/ because those don’t belong here, but you can easily replace /r/ with /c/.
You can link to comms like so:
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.
how do people get lemming? I always assumed it was Lemmy.
:D
Also when people say “substack” instead of newsletter, even about their own. Like, have some self respect – you’re doing all the work.
Hey, I’m on a *Bin instance. I’ll call them “magazines” and you’ll like it.
Why not a Binstance?
I’ll miscall them clips.
I got a full magazine for you fancy motherfucker
I think it’s referred to as a cassette.
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.
I like ‘subfeddit’, or we could go another way and call the something like ‘district’ or ‘constituency’, coz each one has a rep haha
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.
What do we call the? I say “Lemmy sub” lacking a better term.
it’s right there all over the site man. “community”
I’m an idiot… Thank you
Idk seems too much of a common noun
To be fair, most of us have been “that lemming” at one point or another.
But I can SUBScribe to them 😔.
And then the community would be one of your subscriptions. Otherwise it’s just a community.
When someone refers to a community as a ‘comm’, they’re just trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.
If you hit me up on ‘comms’, I’m gonna need a radio; that’s what the word means, if you’ve been alive any time in the last 100 years.
that’s what the word means
“You can’t use X word like that because [It’s made up|That’s not what it means|It means something else]” argument is always incredibly weak.
At its very core, language is dynamic, words come, go and change all the time. It’s how it works. Languages that don’t change, die.
On top of that, words can have multiple meanings that are dependent on context.
Exactly - comm is a perfectly cromulent word.
Sub as in sublemmy
Genuine question as a former Redditer what are they called here on Lemmy?
Communities. Which has no convenient abbreviation.
What the hell did you just call me?! lol I’m so new to all this I have no idea what I’m doing.
Thank you
Comms
Communities
They need a name, what do we call them??!
Subs, short for subcommunities.
Careful. That would require recognizing instances as communities in their own right, and some folks get bent out of shape when you do that.
“comms” short and “community” for long
“commies”
It’s all starting to make sense
Indeed
“Comms” sounds bad.
I propose we call them 'nities.
it’s right there all over the site man. “community”
