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uhhh... what do I call the "subreddits"? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 years ago by falcoignis@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

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[–] Venus@slrpnk.net 80 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They're communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.

[–] SammichParade@vlemmy.net 23 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Petition to name them SubLemmys

[–] communist@beehaw.org 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less... y'know, reddity?

And also, it's much more intuitive.

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[–] bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sub-Lemminal messages?

[–] newbiejones@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name

[–] proxzima@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I like this one

[–] redawl@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation

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[–] Lemmington@sopuli.xyz 60 points 2 years ago

Communities, which have a parent instance.

[–] open_world@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.

[–] konki@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So "coms" for short?

[–] bradmoor@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Commies

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[–] Yadaran@feddit.de 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'll just call them sublemmys

[–] Senseibull@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word

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[–] staticnoise@infosec.pub 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Communities is the name used on my UI.

[–] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Mine, too. And it's fits the /c/... format.

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[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago (8 children)

On Lemmy, they are "communities".

On Kbin, they are "magazines". I am told that "magazine" is a pun in Polish (Kbin's maintainer is Polish).

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Having been here all of 30 minutes, referring to them “bins” might be a nice

[–] Syo@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Did we just witness the birth of viral content in this bin?

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[–] torgeir@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmings

[–] Pagliacci@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.

[–] a_lemming@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed

[–] ban@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

username checks out

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago

just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmings!!!

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But aren't WE the lemmings?

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Surprisingly philosophical

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[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

communities

[–] _thayer@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 42triangles@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If someone says "comms" I'm going to think "communications"

but I guess that also technically works ^^

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh snap! you know Lemmy has hit the big time when its a topic of discussion between SOs!

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been talking about it with a relative, because she really enjoys "popcorn" (i.e. drama).

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

nerd drama the best drama. :-)

[–] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

officially, per protocol, it's Groups. but that sucks :)

[–] tebicat@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

isn't that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.

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[–] jon@lemmy.jonlab.it 19 points 2 years ago

"lemmies" has a nice ring to it

[–] sup@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like communities. I believe that's the the /c/ stands for

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[–] WandererLagomorph799@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes Iused "sublemmies" based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.

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[–] araquen@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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”

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[–] alehc@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Technically communities but I prefer the term sublemmy

[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.

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[–] PascalSausage@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] MadCybertist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)

[–] 10EXP@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Fuck it, call them Lem. Memes is a Sub-Lemmy on Lemmy on the lemmy.nl Lem.

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