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 @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one for the comment!

      • Spzi@lemmy.click
        12·
        2 years 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/
      • SchoonerOP
        75·
        2 years ago

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

    • SchoonerOP
      55·
      2 years ago

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

      • Schmogel@kbin.social
        21·
        2 years ago

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

        • Rhaedas@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Lol, but no. I will say that the first day of migration I had used the analogy, with Reddit being Disney forcing the actions of the lemmings to make a choice. But I think in this case what they thought was a cliff was actually a briar patch. How’s that for a combo reference?

    • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

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

    • SchoonerOP
      102·
      2 years ago

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

  • deltasalmon@kbin.social
    17·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • Spzi@lemmy.click
    17·
    2 years ago

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

    On kbin, they are called “magazines”.

    • SchoonerOP
      32·
      2 years 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.

      • Spzi@lemmy.click
        4·
        2 years ago

        Did anyone have troubles to recall or to understand “community”? It’s a quite self-explanatory term, because it is generic.

        Also, please consider:

        • the documentation calls it community
        • the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/

        For many, lemmy is already complex and hard to understand. I’m worried things like these (if adopted) would make it even less accessible.

        • SchoonerOP
          21·
          2 years ago

          No one will connect a generic term like community to Lemmy. This kinda hurts the awareness of it as a service people can use. Having something more catchy will at least get people asking.

          • Spzi@lemmy.click
            2·
            2 years ago

            You do have a point. And while I was arguing all for accessibility, I feel an argument for ‘accessibility’ can also be made the other way. When people have an easier time connecting with an idea emotionally, it can make it easier for them to learn about it. So yeah, I guess it isn’t as obvious as I tried to make it look. I have no conclusion yet.

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 years 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.

    • SchoonerOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      What’s a community without inside jokes though?

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
    166·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • mrbubblesort@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      OK, so a group of lemmings is called a “slice”. That kinda has a nice ring to it, “I joined this slice of the fediverse” or “the mods on this slice are all terrible!!!”

  • Carly™@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years 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.

    • cjerrington@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I wonder as more people join the threadiverse, as its also been nicknamed, the knowledge of community and magazine might be better understood. I do think however the integration could be stream-lined a little better when going between the two.

    • SchoonerOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Had the same thought so now I’m trying to crowdsource it lol

  • Haze@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years 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.