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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.

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Maybe let people call them whatever they like?

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Instances work for me, as an engineer that verbage comes naturally

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That’s different, though, as it refers to the server hosting the communities.

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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.

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Well the flip coin is the same. New users coming to a place and using language they feel is natural, and then judging them for not using your own specific terminology is also “A Choice” It’s not up to anyone what other people call things.

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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?

Edit: Formatting hard.

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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.

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For some reason Connect refers to everything older than 1 week as 1 week ago so my account appears as 1 week old when in reality its getting close to 2 years old

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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.

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Yeehive sounds like ot was made by some primary school kid in the age of the modern internet trying to be cool and edgy

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That makes it sound like Kanye is involved

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Sublemminal messages

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Best thought presented on Lemmy yet

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I haven’t seen anyone say that yet, but they’d be wrong

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i’m not high enough for this

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