• dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 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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              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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                2 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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                  2 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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                    I heard people use it on lemmy to refer to communities

                    Because they came from reddit and call them subreddits

                    Just take the L dude

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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