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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!

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[โ€“] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is "communities" ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Exactly.

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

[โ€“] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 2 years 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/
[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Schmogel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmings makes more sense to be the users

[โ€“] SomeoneElse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Users are called lemmings. Communities are called communities on lemmy and magazines on kbin. Communities makes more sense to me.

[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You know what? I didn't think about that!

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?

[โ€“] deltasalmon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.

[โ€“] Fuyuhikodate@diggit.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!

(The game and also the suggestion)

[โ€“] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

On kbin, they are called "magazines".

[โ€“] ziamor@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe "Burrows"

[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Ooooh really unique suggestion!

[โ€“] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They are called communities!

[โ€“] supermurs@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!

[โ€“] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Commies full of Leminists!

[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] phazed09@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it's free for the taking.

[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Wait really? What are they called?

[โ€“] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Magazines! quickly runs away

[โ€“] kosure@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] ApollosArrow@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I would much prefer bins over magazine. That is a great idea.

[โ€“] uninvitedguests@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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