• NocturnalMorning
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      As the singular authority on nicknames for communities, I’ll allow it.

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      As I have been calling them sublemmys because it amuses me, the change to domlemmys should be an easy one.

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    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”.

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    Listen, “comms” is a terrible name for this concept. I’m calling them subs until something better comes along.

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      Lol how so, Lemmy (the software) calls them “communities” and comms is a nice and shortened version of that

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    I’m ok with subs because you subscribe to communities, but yeah I have had to unlearn some habits from reddit

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    Using “lemmings” is arguably more wrong - there are plenty of people on the fediverse who are not using lemmy.

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    Hey, I’m on a *Bin instance. I’ll call them “magazines” and you’ll like it.

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    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.

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      Also when people say “substack” instead of newsletter, even about their own. Like, have some self respect – you’re doing all the work.

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    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.

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      I like ‘subfeddit’, or we could go another way and call the something like ‘district’ or ‘constituency’, coz each one has a rep haha

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Wouldn’t that also apply to calling them subs? Like, maybe it’s technically a community and not a sub-[item], but everyone knows what is meant by it.

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          We as a group stopped using ‘subs’ to distance ourselves from reddit. Had they not been as shitty as they were, we might still be using their terminology

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            Speak for yourself, I’m not so obsessed with reddit that i need to make up new words just to price I’m not obsessed with reddit.

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            Yeah, but reclaiming “sub” would just be an example of language being dynamic. Unless someone is calling the communities “subreddits” I don’t think there should be this divisive issue about it.

            Use sub if you want, or not if you dislike the term.

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              Yeah I’m not telling anybody they can’t do it. I’m just positing my theory why we moved so quickly away from the old term.

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                Sorry, my reply was more directed at the original commenter, but that would make sense.

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    To be fair, most of us have been “that lemming” at one point or another.

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      And then the community would be one of your subscriptions. Otherwise it’s just a community.

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    What do we call the? I say “Lemmy sub” lacking a better term.