just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)
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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”
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!
Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
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!
Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.
Agreed. Communities make sense and is easy to remember.
Lemmings!!!
But aren't WE the lemmings?
Surprisingly philosophical
Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
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 saw red vent in comms
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Communities, which have a parent instance.
I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.
So "coms" for short?
I feel like if the short version isn't "sub" then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn't own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That's what it is in my mind now.
Commies
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
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@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
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I'll just call them sublemmys
Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.
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Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word
I think this is the clear winner
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+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation
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Communities
and more importantly, what are lemmy users called? for reddit we have redditors, for lemmy.. lemminors?!
Lemmings?
I like this one.
Sometimes Iused "sublemmies" based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.
I like this one because I read and say it as su-blie-mies.
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