Coming from Reddit, the term subreddit was easy. Is there already a short name for Lemmy Communities?
Lemmity?
Lemmunity?
Sublemmit? (My wife’s suggestion, now my current favorite.)
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A group of lemmings is called a “slice”.
If we’re not going for community I’d vote for this.
I like slice! A slice of life… A slice of the lemmingverse 😁
I like it.
Why not just community? It’s already called a community everywhere on the instances and its /c/ in the url. Imo it should start with a C no matter what
People always referred to subreddits as a sub or community anyway. Easy.
Ok, so cum for short then?
cunts
I’d say cummies for the extra cringe factor.
I laughed too hard at this
Community => Cums
Yep. And can easily be shortened to com or comms.
Communities -> commies
Only on lemmygrad
But subreddits are called Subreddits and have the format /r/subreddit_name.
Also, community is in my opinion
- too long to type out for something we will be using very often
- the word already has a meaning
It might be better to simply use another dedicated word
I understand, but theyre called subreddits by reddit. Lemmy calls them communities all over the instances. If the users suddenly start calling them something else it would get confusing
How about “cub”.
Like, “we need a cub for this”.
i don’t think you know the meaning behind that word and i don’t want to be the one that tells you…
Ah. Yes, I did not think of that 😅
But to be fair, ‘sub’ has another meaning as well.
What’s it mean?
Or pups, since a baby lemming is called a pup?
Gets my vote
Definitely should be community. And I was hoping we could all leave the 3rd grade humor behind on reddit
But third grade is where my humor peaked!
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Sublems?
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Hmm… short and sweet, with a “tip of the hat” to our old reddit world. This might catch on.
The adjective being: “subleminal”
Fun to say, but I’m not sure how I’d use that in a sentance.
Haha, Lemmunity was my first thought.
A burrow.
I’m officially calling communities burrows now. It’s done. And a crosspost can be a borrow.
@PotjiePig @sepiroth154 So would that make the homepages their Dens?
I upvote “sublems” or “sublemmies”.
Lemmings… Yup. I like that.
Lemmings should refer to the users
Agreed.
Personally I prefer Community, it is nicely neutral and conveys the correct message I think. If people think that’s too broad, then “sub” is a solid short option.
A sublemmy?
I like slice.
zesty!
Sublemmy? Sublem?
I might start using sublem!
I like the idea of a Slice!
Mlems
…No, hear me out. If we’re lemmings, therefore lems, a community is many lems. So mlems. Also it’s catchy.
Edit: Well fuck. Obviously not an ios user -.-
Holy cannoli, someone should make an app named that!
/s
Omfg I’m so sorry I saw this right after I posted my comment
That’s actually what the iOS app is called! Mlem
Seconding “Sublem”
Honestly, I think the answer is obvious … same as it was before … “Sub”.
Especially as kbin uses “magazine” for its communities, which means we need a short hand that is not specific. “Sub” captures the idea perfectly well and obviously carries over the Reddit analogy.
My vote would be keep “Community” as the long form name, as it’s a good description of what it is and for. Then short form “sub” because in essence it’s a subset of the total community.
Sublemmies :)
Slice!
