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Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?

My personal vote is for lemmings!

Edit: I am personally leaning towards Sublemmy now. It retains the context of being a forum under the general sphere of Lemmy and the connection to Reddit lets people know immediately what Lemmy is about. Thanks to @[email protected] for the comment!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is "communities" ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly.

Let's not overcomplicate this. People trying to come up with a name for something that already has one. Lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I must leave my mark on history or the sands of time will forget me!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a very important point. Some of us probably still remember the learning curve when coming to lemmy. Everyone has heard how others complained about it, or would not join in the first place.

Creating ambiguous terms and multiple definitions for the same things is one unecessary way to make life harder for everyone.

More reasons:

  • the documentation calls it community
  • the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmings makes more sense to be the users

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You know what? I didn't think about that!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Users are called lemmings. Communities are called communities on lemmy and magazines on kbin. Communities makes more sense to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sublemmy. I know it's uninspired, but we might as well use terminology that people are familiar with. "Community" sounds too vague IMO, it's better to choose a made up word that doesn't have a specific dictionary definition.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This one has my vote

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the users of Lemmy were called "Lemons" and the communities themselves were referred to as "Lemon Parties"

Isn't everyone using these terms?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I seem to have missed that memo lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magazines! quickly runs away

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see why people would hate it. But I actually love magazines. Though "bins" for kbin makes a lot of sense too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the great thing is that magazines doesn't have to be specifically for kbin, making it great to use on lemmy too ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I would much prefer bins over magazine. That is a great idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!

(The game and also the suggestion)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy says what they call them in the title bar, so they already have a name, communities. Seems projects tend to use their own nomenclature, Kbin calls them magazines.

There's no official term for Lemmy users. Lemmings would be appropriate, though not particularly flattering.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Officially they're called communities, the issue with that is that when you're trying to mention them in conversation with someone outside of Lemmy, you often have to use the longer "Lemmy Community." Not the end of the world, but something quicker and more distinct might be better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a joke question? You used the term yourself: "Communities".

On kbin, they are called "magazines".

Still looking for an elegant way to refer to both. Comagz? Magnities?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To me, that seems a little too generic. Everyone knows that you're talking about reddit when you reference a subreddit. I want something that has that immediate recall factor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They are called communities!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some called it "sub" or "subs" for short on reddit. Why not just keep the same one without the "reddit" word. Lemmy sub -> sub. No need to invent some random words for every instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That works okay as a shortcut since many are used to the term already, plus to get a regular feed you have to subscribe. Like any language, what gets used the most after a while will become the normal term.