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!

    • @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
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      11 months ago

      Exactly.

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

      • @Spzi@lemmy.click
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        511 months 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/
        • @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
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          11 months ago

          I actually forgot about the URL and didn’t even think about the documentation! Great points!

    • @Schooner@lemmy.mlOP
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      011 months ago

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

      • Schmogel
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        111 months ago

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

  • deltasalmon
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    311 months 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?

  • @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    111 months 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.

    • kosure
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      111 months ago

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

      • uninvitedguests
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        111 months ago

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

  • @Spzi@lemmy.click
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    11 months ago

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

    On kbin, they are called “magazines”.

    • @Schooner@lemmy.mlOP
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      011 months 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
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        011 months 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.

        • @Schooner@lemmy.mlOP
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          111 months 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.