• dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        What do you have against calling it a sub? Yeah, that’s what I said, non world news, whats wrong with you mate

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          What do you have against calling it a sub?

          The same thing someone at Mastodon would have against calling what people post there “tweets.” It’s not the right word.

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              6 months ago

              Since “sub” is short for “subreddit,” no it isn’t.

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                Sub cannot refer to subreddit outside the context of reddit. You say it can only be used exclusively for one thing only and disregard its general definition as a prefix. That’s like claiming sub cannot refer to a submarine in a marine context because “it’s already short for subreddit”

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                  6 months ago

                  Stopped reading at the insult. I did not insult you. I was entirely cordial. If this is how you talk to people, no wonder you use Reddit terminology.

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                  Ok if it’s not subreddit

                  A) what does it stand for, and

                  B) where did you hear it from?

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                    6 months ago

                    doesn’t necessarily need be a part of another word, can also be used as a noun on its own, just as part of a bigger whole. If it necessarily needs to be a prefix, think of subpage.

                    Why’d I need to have heard it in order to use it. But yes, I heard people use it on lemmy to refer to communities

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          What is wrong is not me here. Look, I get it. It’s called a subreddit on Reddit. But this is Lemmy and we don’t have subs. We have communities. And there’s a community for world news, but this isn’t it

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          6 months ago

          Yes, the news community shares news from all over the world, which includes the US.

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          If Texas were a country, it would be the 10th biggest by GDP and the 4th largest petrostate. It’s twice as large as Germany. This isn’t hyper-local news.

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      6 months ago

      You want to share news from another country, post it. No one is stopping you.