Sub-Lemminal messages?
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I like this one
that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name
Communities, which have a parent instance.
Lemmings!!!
But aren't WE the lemmings?
Surprisingly philosophical
Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
The use of 'comm' and 'comms' as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy's url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.
Like 'sub' and 'subs', they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.
If someone says "comms" I'm going to think "communications"
but I guess that also technically works ^^
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I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.
So "coms" for short?
I feel like if the short version isn't "sub" then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn't own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That's what it is in my mind now.
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just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)
I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”
The official term is "community" as noted in one of the earlier github commits:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/b0a6fefcf9dc861ae0b4757154050ec3f14ac14f
You can see a full discussion of the issue below:
+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation
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@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
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officially, per protocol, it's Groups. but that sucks :)
isn't that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.
Yeah, in the lemmy source code they are called "Communities"; in the kbin source code they are called "Magazines"; I think Mastodon uses the ActivityPub lexicon and also uses "Groups" in it's source code. I perfer "Communities" because that is how the "Groups" are being used.
Sometimes Iused "sublemmies" based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.
I like this one because I read and say it as su-blie-mies.
They're communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
Petition to name them SubLemmys
I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less... y'know, reddity?
And also, it's much more intuitive.
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I've seen sub-lemmy being used which is cute, but has the obvious ties to Reddit. I guess we all get to work this out together!
Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.
Agreed. Communities make sense and is easy to remember.
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
Lemmings.
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Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
Lemmings
If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.
Indeed
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Ah the good ol' user-roo. Hold my jokes, I'm going in.
and more importantly, what are lemmy users called? for reddit we have redditors, for lemmy.. lemminors?!
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