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.
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.
Except that the different words have specific meanings that add actual value to users when used properly. Community is Lemmy, magazine is kbin, I’m not sure what mastodon calls it, but I see their interactions a lot. It tells you things like the instance name hosting a community/magazine tells you things.
Introducing some dumb Reddit term here for no reason other than because you want to doesn’t help, it actively confuses and detracts from the way the platforms actually work and interact, and that information is helpful to users because different platforms work differently. While the goal is to minimize the user hiccups from that cross platforms talk, it is still very important that people know and understand that there are platforms that work differently that interact with their own. Because maybe they will like other platforms better, great!
You might not care, and good for you, but these things already have names and they don’t need new ones just because you miss Reddit. We don’t. That’s why we are here instead.