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”
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 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”.
I dunno, I was getting a lot of good, niche information from my kbinnies!
? why not?
we could just call them “bins” or “subbins”
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.
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.
