Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.
Algorithm stuff aside, I’m not sure this thread is a good indication of how much can be contributed to linguistics or grammar comms. Plenty of people are in here airing pet peeves, but that’s never a good indication of actual interest in language-- like how r/grammar doesn’t allow pet peeve threads or simple prescriptivism without also providing a discussion of the grammar mechanics. Low effort stuff used to get removed with a recommendation to try subs like r/grammarnazi, but that community (now it’s private so I can’t check details, but I remember it being kind of dead) never had much content specifically because people who just want to make pet peeve threads don’t have any interest in actual discussion.
There already are a couple comms that don’t get much traffic, so maybe if the algo were better we’d see an uptick of the linguistic minded lemmings over there, but it’s a pretty niche interest so I’m not holding out much hope. Looks like the most “active” with a couple posts a month is [email protected] (anything more grammar focused looks dead).
That’s a possibility too, but we’ll never know for sure until the front page subscribed algorithms are improved.
I hear the algo’s a big problem with loops and mastodon (?) also, but I don’t really do the tiktok or twitter style SMS so I’m not very familiar. With all the shit going on with the oligarchs and right wing world governments these days, it’ll be interesting to see if the fediverse can sustain itself.
I don’t know anything about loops but I use mastodon fairly regularly. Mastodon only has like two basic algorithms: your main feed shows the individual posts of everyone you follow or which contain hashtags you follow. Then there’s another page that will also show you the top posts of the day - I believe that goes by the posts which received the most “boosts” although I’ve seen some people say that it may take into account the number of “favorites” the post receives. It’s a fairly different concept from Lemmy.
I’m hoping that the Fediverse thrives, even at a smaller scale. I’m so done with major corporate social media. Speaking of which, tomorrow is being called a day to switch from the corporate ones to the independent ones, like Reddit -> Lemmy, Twitter -> Mastodon, Instagram -> Pixelfed, etc.