I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”
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The official term is "community" as noted in one of the earlier github commits:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/b0a6fefcf9dc861ae0b4757154050ec3f14ac14f
You can see a full discussion of the issue below:
Awesome, thank you!
can we call them commies?
I like communities. I believe that's the the /c/ stands for
Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
Lemmings.
I think it'd be more fun to just call us Lemurs
Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)
Sub-Lemminal messages?
I like this one
The use of 'comm' and 'comms' as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy's url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.
Like 'sub' and 'subs', they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.
If someone says "comms" I'm going to think "communications"
but I guess that also technically works ^^
I've seen sub-lemmy being used which is cute, but has the obvious ties to Reddit. I guess we all get to work this out together!
@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
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Communities
I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.
officially, per protocol, it's Groups. but that sucks :)
Lemmings!!!
But aren't WE the lemmings?
Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
Surprisingly philosophical
and more importantly, what are lemmy users called? for reddit we have redditors, for lemmy.. lemminors?!
Lemmings?
Communities. It is an established name.
- The documentation uses it: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/01-getting-started.html
- The browser interface uses it (see top left, see in dropdown menus)
- The unchangeable URL structure uses it (we are in /c/linux@lemmy.ml)
Lemmy is difficult enough to learn for newcomers. Please don't make it harder for them to join. Don't force them to learn two terms where one suffices.
Technically communities but I prefer the term sublemmy
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