Those are the users that cannot seem to grasp that Lemmy is NOT Reddit and that Lemmy wasn’t created 2 weeks ago. “Sublem” and “Sublemmy” are so cringy it hurts. Please just call them communities.
Coming into an established venue and insisting everything change to be more like what you’re used to is certainly A Choice.
I like to think most of it is people just genuinely not realising things already have a name, so as long as we continue to nip the “sublemmy” stuff in the bud it’ll peter out. Saw a lot of the same stuff on Mastodon last year but it settled down pretty quick.
I don’t disagree with you but, as someone who has recently jumped ship from Reddit, can you point to a glossary of terms to help us get our jargon down?
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Honestly it’s mainly just the sublemmy community thing, from what I’ve seen! Most other terms are the same, upvotes are still upvotes, subscribing is still subscribing, crossposting is still crossposting etc. Even cake day is the same! Shitposting is now beanposting, although we’ll see if that one sticks.
Lemmy users are Lemmings. I’m not 100% sure what Kbin users have decided on but the one I’ve seen most in use is Kbinauts.
I keep seeing people refer to a “front page” which isn’t really a thing that exists since it’s completely different depending on which instance you’re on, which feed you’re looking at and how you sort it, but I have no idea what that was on Reddit either since I always stuck to my subscriptions.
I’ve also seen a couple people in support threads being confused between “instance” (the site an account or community is hosted on ie vlemmy.net) and “community”, but that’s not been too widespread.
On Beehaw.org someone suggested “yeehives” as a word for the communities there, it kind of caught on enough to see sporadic use.
It’s completely off the wall and I love it.
COMMUNITIES ARE COMMUNITIES
Communities has too many sillaby, may be comm or comi is better…
I actually like kbin term, they use term Magazine for community. It can easily shortened as Magz.
I don’t agree with you, community is more memorable and we don’t have to be reddit
I’m going to nip the bud early for any attempt calling it something other than community because lemmy is not reddit so people need to stop trying to make it like reddit with the terminology
Comi and magz sound really awful and I can see that you’re basing it of the reddit term “subreddit”
Don’t try and force redditness (if that even is a word) on lemmy because lemmy is unique in its own way, no one should force it to be like reddit
community is the name of lemmy communities and I’m going to hard disagree with anyone who says otherwise because those people are just trying to find some cool new word similar to subreddit because they don’t realise that lemmy is unique from reddit, it’s not just a replacement for reddit
Orrrrr… maybe I just think it’s too many syllables.
Don’t kid yourself. Lemmy is 100% a Reddit clone. It was literally made as a replacement for Reddit.
i’m not high enough for this
Sublem?
Some Lemmy users are wrong
