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Lol how so, Lemmy (the software) calls them "communities" and comms is a nice and shortened version of that
I'm not saying subs is perfect. But comms has a much more predominant existing meaning: "communications." It's not clear what you're referring to. While "sub" does have some existing meanings like "subscription" or "submissive," those aren't as pervasive meanings, and in my mental map it's more associated with a subreddit or Lemmy community, so that's what I'm going with.
Both of those words (community and comms) have common meanings that are adjacent but distinct in important ways from the Lemmy jargon meaning. That makes them confusing and awkward to use; what if you want to talk about the Lemmy community at large or some subset of it? You would have to go way out of your way to make sure all ambiguity is removed that you might be talking about a "community" as in the subreddit equivalent. Comms is not as bad in this way I guess.
That's exactly why, actually. It's too easy, like a kid naming their dog Mr. Woofs or naming a car Sally. I feel we can be far more creative.
I can't, but I'm sure someone can.
What do lemmings live in. ...holes? Warrens? Hives?
I could get behind "warrens"
I'll shorten it to wars.
We'd become twice as interesting to people who've never heard of us.
Have you seen the wars on Lemmy?
Ah yes child. The war of the wars, I was there to witness it...
Seeing as how roughly zero percent of us are neurotypicals, yes that tracks. 😎
But on Reddit, sub is short for subreddit. How is this any different?
They're used to subs and people don't like change to the point that they'll make up nonsense to justify their views.
Yeah but I want to argue about something.
Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it's fine in context.