It stands for “reddit,” which was actually the official name they used for subreddits. They were actually supposed to be just called “reddits” (so like, “come visit the Gaming reddit!”), but that’s stupid so nobody called them that. The “/r/” is a vestige of that.
Quick Google search:
We actually called them “reddits” for a while. So you’d read your reddit on reddit, and maybe you’d reddit on your reddit on Reddit and… well that’s a lot of reddit-ing (the r/ is a vestige of this time as well). But that got pretty confusing, so we moved to “subreddit” (like sub-domain, but… reddit).
I know, just my point is people don’t always and don’t have to be conformative. It’s just one of those “it’s catching on” things. You and everyone may call it what one wants (nothing in TOS restricting that, as if I had to check), not sure why some things don’t sit well with certain people. I can link to my main source, but the OP/question was deleted, so yeah.
They’re communities
I’m going by what I’ve seen a lot of people call them and fancy calling them.
Right, but the ‘c’ in the url literally stands for “community”
The R in a Reddit URL doesn’t stand for “subreddit”.
It stands for “reddit,” which was actually the official name they used for subreddits. They were actually supposed to be just called “reddits” (so like, “come visit the Gaming reddit!”), but that’s stupid so nobody called them that. The “/r/” is a vestige of that.
Quick Google search:
Which, according to Google’s AI, comes from this, but it’s reddit so I’m not going to bother reading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sta5wl/why_is_subreddit_or_a_brief_history_of_the/
I know, just my point is people don’t always and don’t have to be conformative. It’s just one of those “it’s catching on” things. You and everyone may call it what one wants (nothing in TOS restricting that, as if I had to check), not sure why some things don’t sit well with certain people. I can link to my main source, but the OP/question was deleted, so yeah.