Basically how reddit would call any given reddit sub-community “sub reddit” or just “sub” for short. I know internally lemmy just calls them ‘community’ but in a regular conversation ‘community’ might be interpreted as more broad or too general.
Thinking about it my mind would pretty much automatically go to ‘sub lemmy’, but then I felt like just shortening it to ‘blemmy’ has a great ring to it, while still being distinct. So if there isn’t already an established name, I’ll go ahead and propose ‘blemmy’.
I’ve been using “forum” as a generic word to refer to any of —
- Lemmy “communities”
- Kbin “magazines”
- Reddit “subreddits”
- … and so on.
In all these cases, a forum has similar attributes:
- It is a container for posts.
- Users can subscribe to it.
- It has its own moderation team.
- It can have its own policies.
This is pretty generic. So what isn’t a forum in this sense?
A Twitter hashtag isn’t a forum. Although it can be used to find posts, and users can follow it, it does not have its own moderation team or policies.
A Gmail account isn’t a forum. It receives messages. It has its own “moderator”: you, the account owner, can delete messages from your inbox without needing to go through Gmail’s admins. It can have its own “policies”: you can write spam-filtering rules. But other people can’t subscribe to it.
A blog without comments isn’t a forum. It is a container for posts, and users can subscribe to it (e.g. via RSS, or just bookmarking), but it doesn’t have moderation or policies because there’s nothing to moderate: the blogger is the only one posting there.
The term “community” more or less settled, but if you are looking for something more distinct, there is an idea to call ourselves lemmings and the communities /c/liffs that we jump on. Alternatively we could call ourselves lemmons and the communities /c/itrusses.
Heh. I wouldn’t mind either of those ideas, they both sound pretty alright to me.
Credit to @pinwurm for this on another thread
Slice - that is the term for a group of lemmings. everyone using lemmy is a lemming. and it has the double meaning that each community is just a portion of the whole
EDIT: the post https://lemmy.world/post/891452
A community. That’s what they’re called everywhere in the UI.
Yeah community isn’t a very distinct name. Perhaps we should just shorten it to commie.
Called communities here on lemmy.world
it makes sense
and reddit even uses the term as well
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The uri structure for stock instances are hostname/c/[thing_that_needs_a_name], I would find it a little unintuitive for the ‘b’ to be the thing you add, clemmy would make a lot more sense to my ape code brain.
Arguing from that perspective that would make a lot of sense, yeah. My chain of thought was going more from the sound and what people might want to ‘naturally’ call them.
Sub or Subcom. No need to try and get all ridiculous.
I like community, makes more sense than sub really. Maybe call it a com for short?
What I like about ‘subreddit’ is that it’s still very specific when you use it outside of reddit. On reddit you can easily just say ‘sub’, whereas outside of reddit you’d say ‘subreddit’ to make it very clear, what specific place you’re talking about. If I say ‘[name] community’ outside of lemmy, even someone who uses lemmy wouldn’t necessarily know I’m specifically talking about the lemmy community, unless the context already made that very clear. And that distinction can be helpful in a conversation.
Saw a similar post to this in !showerthoughts. Some people were suggesting the idea “sublems” which isn’t bad.
