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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@5cr33ch3r I believe lemmy calls them communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy calls them "communities" but since Lemmy federates over ActivityPub which can have lots of different implementations and Lemmy can speak to them, they can have different names. For example there is kbin which calls them "magazines", another implementation might call them something else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The official activitypub term is "group", but yes we just call them communities here. That's why its also /c/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I think the general ActivityPub name is "groups".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should be just "community"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Loved that show

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Community" as the other replies already mentioned, but how do we abbreviate that? "Sub" worked well imho, but does "com" have the same ring to it? Any better suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That'll work when typing things online, but not in f2f conversations. I thought about 'com(m)' which will work, typed out in certain contexts, but I think that sounds too much like other words in several languages including English to use in speech. But if you prepend 'lemmy' to that it's quite a distinguishable word that sounds like 'lexicon': lemmycom(m)!

There's a lemmycom for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I might just call them lemmies. Like, I was on a lemmy the other day about X. I guess it is ambiguous with the instances and silly if the community is on kbin or whatever, but also it is easy to say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

communities, I call them comms for short

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Go back to lemmygrad 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm thinking that's how you can refer to your fellow community members

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is the way!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like subs, and just that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)