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Coming from Reddit, the term subreddit was easy. Is there already a short name for Lemmy Communities?

Lemmity?

Lemmunity?

Sublemmit? (My wife's suggestion, now my current favorite.)

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[–] Kempeth@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A group of lemmings is called a "slice".

If we're not going for community I'd vote for this.

[–] taj@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I like slice! A slice of life... A slice of the lemmingverse 😁

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
[–] tesfabpel@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

A sublemmy?

[–] FuryFaceofDoom@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I like the idea of a Slice!

[–] Puls3@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I like slice.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Why not just community? It's already called a community everywhere on the instances and its /c/ in the url. Imo it should start with a C no matter what

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Definitely should be community. And I was hoping we could all leave the 3rd grade humor behind on reddit

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[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. And can easily be shortened to com or comms.

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But subreddits are called Subreddits and have the format /r/subreddit_name.

Also, community is in my opinion

  • too long to type out for something we will be using very often
  • the word already has a meaning

It might be better to simply use another dedicated word

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I understand, but theyre called subreddits by reddit. Lemmy calls them communities all over the instances. If the users suddenly start calling them something else it would get confusing

[–] thesalamander@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People always referred to subreddits as a sub or community anyway. Easy.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, so cum for short then?

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[–] grin@grinnit.grin.hu 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] pinwurm@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

If Subreddit -> Sub...
Then Community -> Commune ?

Seems apt given the developer's political leanings. But it wouldn't be as inviting to neutral users, so 'sub' seems to be fine to me.

[–] Lemon_Man@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lem

plural: Lems

[–] trot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hexbear uses "comm"

[–] JerkyIsSuperior@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Community is fine, please, no cutesy nicknames.

[–] HerculeanTardigrade@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lmao, everything sounds like LeBron naming memes or whatever it's called. πŸ˜‚

[–] Yodadidas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the good ol memes with "le me":

Rage comics were the golden age of memes, to be honest.

"Lethargic"

Haha r/NBA memes are about to cross over to Lemmy even before the NBA Lemmy community starts!

[–] rss3091@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Good question. Similarly I was talking with someone the other day about what a user should be called (Lemming?) and what the act of using Lemmy might be called (also lemming!)

I like Lemmunity :-)

[–] Levii@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Blink three times if you're contractually obliged to prefer her suggestion/preferring it under duress.

I'd send help but my wife is home.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I upvote "sublems" or "sublemmies".

Lemmings... Yup. I like that.

[–] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmings should refer to the users

[–] 00Lemming@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] FlavorGrain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haha, Lemmunity was my first thought.

(also, my first comment here!)

Mlems

...No, hear me out. If we're lemmings, therefore lems, a community is many lems. So mlems. Also it's catchy.

[–] red@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Commy

(Yea, this isn't going to go well with the ~~Ammys~~ Americans)

[–] kermit@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I kinda like β€œLemon”.

[–] SignusX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago
[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] gadgetboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

Sublemmy? Sublem?

[–] Ketram@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Personally I prefer Community, it is nicely neutral and conveys the correct message I think. If people think that's too broad, then "sub" is a solid short option.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I think the answer is obvious … same as it was before … β€œSub”.

Especially as kbin uses β€œmagazine” for its communities, which means we need a short hand that is not specific. β€œSub” captures the idea perfectly well and obviously carries over the Reddit analogy.

My vote would be keep β€œCommunity” as the long form name, as it’s a good description of what it is and for. Then short form β€œsub” because in essence it’s a subset of the total community.

[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 1 points 2 years ago

I kind of wish the term from Kbin would catch on, Magazines.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I personally use "com" and hope it catches on.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I use comm. I feel like the extra M adds specificity but idk.

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