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

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[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So subreddit=subs as communities=comms? I'm not typing communities all the time lmao.

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

presumably new slang will be developed as the communities mature.

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] elonspez@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

community+lemmies -> commies, sounds pretty natural to me

[–] Venus 6 points 1 year ago

yeah, over on hexbear comms is the usual parlance anyway. the wider lemmy population with the new reddit people might change that though

[–] zombiepiratefromspace@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the official name is magazines, then why not use "mags"?

[–] el_doso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think just kbin refers to them as magazines, and (currently at least) Lemmy seems to be the more popular platform, calling them communities.

Neither is great tbh

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just call them sublemmies so we can just type subs.