TLDR: The reason for why I created the sublemmy is not getting attention, sublemmy didn’t took off, I’m the only poster (and I post only useless stuff), and there are 2 much more popular/active sublemmies on the exact same topic. TLDR End.
I will be closing down this sublemmy. The reason I created this sublemmy is to advertise this incentive https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/275868 (“Petition for more high speed rail in the EU”). For clarification I didn’t get the idea to create this sublemmy when I saw the post that I crossposted but I wanted to do that even before I found that post. I decided to pin the crossposted post on the topic instead of making my own because I wouldn’t be able to describe the incentive this well myself. This is a reason one for why I want to close this sub down. The other reasons are:
2.) !fuckcars@lemmy.world and !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml are much bigger and much more popular alternative subs that weren’t as big when I started out this sublemmy.
3.) I’m basically the only poster here and all I’m posting is some images related to “fuck cars” to get attention so more people learn about the EU incentive. I’m not posting any news articles on the topic but only some images that lead to some basic conversation if I’m lucky.
Some time after closing down the sublemmy I’m thinking of deleting the sublemmy completely. If there’s someone that wants to take over the sublemmy and actively post on it actually useful stuff then you’re welcome to contact me in the comments under this post. Changed my mind if you want to post stuff then do so on the other 2 sublemmies to help them grow even further.
I mean, try to control it as much as you wish, but this is the Fediverse. People are free to call it what they wish.
And correct it
“correct” implies you have a greater authority than the other user, which is not true on the Fediverse. You’re really just trying to control.
Correct implies what the masses want, not what 1 single user is attempting to do.
The term is communities, anything else is incorrect.
And until you poll the masses in their entirety across the service, you do not know what that is. You cannot know, all you can measure is what you are around. Thus you are arbitrarily imposing on the freedom of another user.
It’s not imposing will, that’s literally what it’s called within the program framework. People decided on these terms before most of us knew the platform even existed.
That’s why you see links to c/whatever and m/whatever. Communities and magazines.
Yes, the official terminology is established as communities, someone gave a screenshot. I am arguing against the need to enforce it. Enforcing it has no benefits but does have drawbacks.
The benefit is consistency so everyone knows wtf other people are talking about. If you start using whatever words you want when everyone else understands it to be a handful of other things already, it’s just adding confusion to an already not super straightforward platform. That is a pretty huge drawback, so yeah, we do actually have a need to enforce proper usage.
But also if there was a huge new wave of people on Reddit who just sort of said “hey I want to call subreddits -insert other thing that makes no sense whatsoever because it relates to some other platform-“ they would be similarly corrected. Rightly. Because that’s not what they are called.
Except you are massively exaggerating the problem in this one specific case. Sublemmy is extremely understandable, even just looking at the word itself with no interpretation necessary.
This is extremely unlikely to confuse anyone, meaning your criticism, while potentially applicable in other situations, is not in this one.
What is certain however, is you’re gonna piss off the kinds of people that hate grammar nazis. That will reduce the overall enjoyment of everyone on here, as we have to read the bullshit back and forths that ensue.