I think you are over conflating “reddit-isms” and “internet-isms”. Reddit is where stuff like this has been most prominent for a while - but the whole funny naming thing has been around since the birth of the internet.
Since the birth of languages, I’m pretty sure. Young people coming up with new slang that their parents generation doesn’t understand has probably been around since people were inventing words.
Calling weed “trees” has been around a lot longer than the internet so I don’t think you’ll make that go away.
I think the “-porn” suffix is part of the internet vernacular now. We’ll probably be calling porn pornporn at some point. We’re stuck with it just like we’re stuck with “-gate”
Yeah, I always thought that was just a wider internet thing. Like an instagram hashtag or something. At least it’s better than “food terrorism” which is what they call it in japanese.
excuse me, what?!
yeah because when you send pictures of amazing food to your friends you’re terrorizing them
All the porn suffixes do is make things that are safe for work sound NSFW. They sound hilarious when you are 17 but lame when you are 37.
I don’t think a little bit of humor is that much of a crime, even if it’s dumb.
I agree with you, but I also feel Reddit-like names of subs can be essential for welcoming casual Reddit migrators. If they sense some kind of familiarity with Lemmy they’re more likely to stay
My thoughts exactly. If I’m a redditor trying to look into alternatives, it’s much easier to replace foodporn with foodporn than that extra step of having to find out whatever the equivalent community is called.
Plus the people creating communities with identical naming conventions as reddit are likely doing it for the same reason - because they liked the community over there and they want to replicate it over here.
I agree with the other posters that this is just internet nomenclature in general, but I have noticed that some people are referring to Lemmy “communities” as “sublemmies“. Fortunately, I don’t think the name “kbin” really lends well to such an analogue so we can just continue to call them “magazines”.
? why not?
we could just call them “bins” or “subbins”I dunno, I was getting a lot of good, niche information from my kbinnies!
So then how redditors find their communities?
