Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol
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:
can we call them
commies
?no
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classic
Hell yeah
oof, id rather call them “comms” or just “cs”(cees)
i come from a country where
commie
is never used as a slur, but by the number of replies that i have received that are mildly horrified, i guess that i may need to think of a different name!
The “commies” like the comunists? I suppose that does not work
I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for
Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.
just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)
They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
Communities
Sub-Lemminal messages?
Technically communities but I prefer the term sublemmy
I’ll just call them sublemmys
This is all very confusing to me
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Lemmings!!!
But aren’t WE the lemmings?
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 ^^
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
Lemmings.
I think it’d be more fun to just call us Lemurs