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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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[–] [email protected] 14 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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

A sublemmy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haha, Lemmunity was my first thought.

(also, my first comment here!)

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

I like the idea of a Slice!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 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

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

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

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

Ok, so cum for short then?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Community => Cums

[–] Thavron 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

How about "cub".

Like, "we need a cub for this".

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

i don't think you know the meaning behind that word and i don't want to be the one that tells you...

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

I like slice.

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

Sublemmy? Sublem?

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

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

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[–] ram 3 points 2 years ago

Baby rodents are called a pup, can we call it a pup please?

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

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.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lem

plural: Lems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Commy

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

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

I saw Lemmyverse somewhere and I kind of dig it

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

I liked your wifes suggestion of Sublemmit, but I would compact it more and perhaps call it a Sublem? Much quicker to type out.

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

Hexbear uses "comm"

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

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

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

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

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

This may be a dumb question: but how do I zoom in on this pic?

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

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

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

"Lethargic"

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

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

I upvote "sublems" or "sublemmies".

Lemmings... Yup. I like that.

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

Lemmings should refer to the users

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

I kinda like β€œLemon”.

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

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 :-)

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

I have made my decision on the matter πŸ˜‰

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