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 —
In all these cases, a forum has similar attributes:
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.