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This has been discussed before, so I'll just copy my response from there:
The term "community" more or less settled, but if you are looking for something more distinct, there is an idea to call ourselves lemmings and the communities /c/liffs that we jump on. Alternatively we could call ourselves lemmons and the communities /c/itrusses.
I am all in for calling communities /c/itrusses. I'm sold!
Hmm, after a quick Google - I vote for Slice. That’s what you call a group of lemmings. A slice of lemmings.
Wish we could make slice catch on. Not only for the reason you mentioned, but it also implies that what you are looking at is a part of a whole. So communities are a slice of lemmy.
Guess you can always … try it, see if it catches on.
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Ooo I kinda like this a lot! How do we get this to be official?
Could always ask the devs?
Kbin can their communities Magazines, so people are okay with alternate names for communities already.
Then again trends catch on in weird ways. What we end up calling them might be something we haven’t heard suggested yet.
Holy shit, that's amazing!
...meaning it will never catch on, but still. Great find.
Pretty sure "community" is the official name
They already have a name, straight from the documentation: "communities". You can call something a "community" and everyone knows exactly what you mean. Call it something contrived like a "sublemmy" and you have to explain it every time.
A non-generic name would probably help with search results though, seeing as you have to type Lemmy communities for Google to understand that’s the kind of results you want.
I disagree, I feel the opposite. If I google, say, "x hometown community", I'm going to get literally everything about my home town. "x hometown sublemmy's(or whatever)" on the otherhand, would be fine tuned to show me lemmy communities about my hometown.
Sublemmy
The problem lies in the federative aspect of it.
Calling the communities "sublemmies" for example, would mean that people on kbin have to call it like that too. And afaik they are called in a general way for the fediverse, just like how mastodon changed toot to post.
Does this make the platforms less unique? Yes, absolutely, but I don't think there is a fix for it.
Lemmies? Sublems? Underlems?
Communities don't have the same ring to it, I agree.
I like sublem
It could be something unbranded, like “communities,” as long as it was consistently used by all. But to have some call it topics, some call it communities, and some call it channels just gets confusing. I’m not even going to comment on “magazines.”
I mean... communities is the official term, makes sense to use it. No idea where the others come from - except magazines, that is a kbin thing.