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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”
can we call them
commies?no
oof, id rather call them "comms" or just "cs"(cees)
i come from a country where
commieis 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!in th united STates, commie is an insult
it means communist, and it is a slur, it 's like the n word but for blievers of communims
The "commies" like the comunists? I suppose that does not work
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:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/121