Lewis Carroll had this to say in Through the Looking Glass:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Citizen Science is not a description, it is a catch phrase that rolls easily off the tongue (for speakers of English, at least) and is easy to remember; it isn’t about the scientific method or citizenship any more than Apple is about apples.
For myself, I think that the moniker iNaturalist is a much better description of what goes on in the site than citizen or community science. It’s actually quite apt. The various neologisms that have cropped up (to iNat, iNatting) will undoubtedly be joined by others. I’m plumping for to iNatter, meaning to blather incessantly about your iNaturalist observations. I like iNaturalism, although I’m a bit vague on what it should mean. My wife thinks I can be an iNut at times.