I like communities. Fits in with the URL too since it's /c/

communities sound better

and their name doesnt need to be explained

When you call it what it is, a community (straight from the documentation), you dont ever have to explain what that means. When you call it a "sublemmy", that means nothing to anyone, and you have to explain it every time . I know which I prefer.

Afaik "community" is the intended Lemmy term.

If we want to mature and be our own thing it's also a good idea to separate ourselves from Reddit, otherwise Lemmy will always be considered a "Reddit clone" (even though it technically started as one and still is).

Even back on Reddit I tended to call them groups, communities, fora, etc. Sublemmy is a cute word but I’d hate to have to say it to a nonline person, and I feel like it gives Reddit too much sway if we just migrate all the terms to this new space

Just community, no need for corny names

Since this is the "fediverse", it makes much more sense to use general terms than things specific to a platform. There's already /kbin, and there may be other link aggregator software platforms that appear in the future, and having a standardised set of vocabulary that all platforms can use makes it much easier for everyone to understand.

/kbin calls them magazines and there's sometimes been some confusion over the term and Lemmy having communities, even though they are the same thing. All the microblogging platforms on the fediverse for example just have "posts" and "boosts", there is no specific term for them like "tweets" on Twitter (there was the "toot" thing for Mastodon for a while, but it was quickly rolled back and hasn't been official for several years).

Don't forget that when you post on Lemmy, you're not posting "to Lemmy", you're posting to the wider "fediverse".

Actually, on reddit they're reddits, which you can tell from the /r/ subdirectory in the corresponding URL.

What is wrong with using communities? By the way, in kbin they are called magazines.

Honestly even on reddit, id call them forums to non reddit users. Subreddits was awkward to use in IRL conversation.

well internally (in the context of activitypub) they are called "groups" 🤓

I would probably call them 'boards'. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it's not universal.

Rather than juggle so many terms, I've started headcanon-ing communities and magazines as generic "subs."

personally i like the fact that referencing a “subreddit” points to the fact that you are talking about a community that is on reddit, as opposed to the wider community around a topic. for example, if you say “i frequent the futurama community”, people will still not be sure what community you are actually talking about.

i think lemmy should have a unique name system for its communities.

I always felt "subreddit" was silly. I call them communities, even on reddit and that word works for me.

I'm on kbin and they are called magazines, but I think communities are a better catch all. Everyone knows what you mean by that

I think instead of sublemmies as we're already a community we combine the two and call ourselves commies.

You don't think anyone else is already using it do you?

I'm personally sticking to calling it communities.