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What are some good Subs on Lemmy that we should know about? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Subs? Not sure if that's the right term on here.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're communities

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going by what I've seen a lot of people call them and fancy calling them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but the 'c' in the url literally stands for "community"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The R in a Reddit URL doesn't stand for "subreddit".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It stands for "reddit," which was actually the official name they used for subreddits. They were actually supposed to be just called "reddits" (so like, "come visit the Gaming reddit!"), but that's stupid so nobody called them that. The "/r/" is a vestige of that.

Quick Google search:

We actually called them “reddits” for a while. So you'd read your reddit on reddit, and maybe you'd reddit on your reddit on Reddit and… well that's a lot of reddit-ing (the r/ is a vestige of this time as well). But that got pretty confusing, so we moved to “subreddit” (like sub-domain, but… reddit).

Which, according to Google's AI, comes from this, but it's reddit so I'm not going to bother reading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sta5wl/why_is_subreddit_or_a_brief_history_of_the/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I know, just my point is people don't always and don't have to be conformative. It's just one of those "it's catching on" things. You and everyone may call it what one wants (nothing in TOS restricting that, as if I had to check), not sure why some things don't sit well with certain people. I can link to my main source, but the OP/question was deleted, so yeah.