just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)
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Lemmings!!!
But aren't WE the lemmings?
Surprisingly philosophical
Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
Communities, which have a parent instance.
Sub-Lemminal messages?
that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name
I like this one
I like communities. I believe that's the the /c/ stands for
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.
@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
Because you fill them with bullets (posts and comments)?
Idea for next social media platform: call them circles.
One more: exactly like lemmy but call them rooms.
Another: exactly like every other one but call them... groups (ups, you might have to fight google though - "groups" might be trademarked!)
Sorry for the sarcasm, but shouldn't this be set in the spec for the fediverse protocol already?
Didn't Google have Circles?
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 ^^
I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.
So "coms" for short?
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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.
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.
+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation
I like Lemmings. Has a ring to it.
I'll just call them sublemmys
Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.
It's a nice lighthearted nod to the exodus, and also a nod to the subforums that came before Reddit. Communities may be the "official" name and I try to use it when talking to others, but they'll always be sublemmys in my head.
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I think this is the clear winner
Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word
Its prefect, I think the "trade name" for that is "sub" anyways and that's what they will be called no matter what they are suposed to be called.
communities
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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new to lemmy....
if there different "linux" communities on different instances? does this mean i have to subscribe to all of them? is there a way to see all content from communities called "linux" from different instances?
or does each "linux" community simply fight for critical mass to become the "main" linux community on lemmy?
thanks
I don't dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it's best to leave it to sort itself out organically.
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and more importantly, what are lemmy users called? for reddit we have redditors, for lemmy.. lemminors?!
Lemmings?
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