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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.
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?
They’re used to subs and people don’t like change to the point that they’ll make up nonsense to justify their views.
Yeah but I want to argue about something.
Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it’s fine in context.
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:
Subs is fine by me, but /r is not.
Using “lemmings” is arguably more wrong - there are plenty of people on the fediverse who are not using lemmy.
fedfellows
Fedows
Feds
Fedophiles
FEDoras?
M’Feddit
Excellent [counter-]point.
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.
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.
I sometimes forget tbh.
Comms is a pretty good word imo.
I vote for 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
it’s either /c/ or !
Comms
Communities
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sorry, my reply was more directed at the original commenter, but that would make sense.
Exactly - comm is a perfectly cromulent word.
Subs, for subcommunity. COME AT ME!
Calling them subs just like I call safe spots in every soulslike a bonfire.
