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Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?

My personal vote is for lemmings!

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[โ€“] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is "communities" ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Exactly.

Let's not overcomplicate this. People trying to come up with a name for something that already has one. Lol.

[โ€“] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

That's a very important point. Some of us probably still remember the learning curve when coming to lemmy. Everyone has heard how others complained about it, or would not join in the first place.

Creating ambiguous terms and multiple definitions for the same things is one unecessary way to make life harder for everyone.

More reasons:

  • the documentation calls it community
  • the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/
[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!

[โ€“] Schmogel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/

[โ€“] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmings makes more sense to be the users

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?

[โ€“] SomeoneElse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Users are called lemmings. Communities are called communities on lemmy and magazines on kbin. Communities makes more sense to me.

[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You know what? I didn't think about that!

[โ€“] deltasalmon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought the users of Lemmy were called "Lemons" and the communities themselves were referred to as "Lemon Parties"

Isn't everyone using these terms?

[โ€“] Thavron@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.

[โ€“] jackwebs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Showing your age there.

[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sublemmy. I know it's uninspired, but we might as well use terminology that people are familiar with. "Community" sounds too vague IMO, it's better to choose a made up word that doesn't have a specific dictionary definition.

[โ€“] skybreaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This one has my vote

[โ€“] phazed09@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it's free for the taking.

[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Wait really? What are they called?

[โ€“] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Commies full of Leminists!

[โ€“] Haze@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some called it "sub" or "subs" for short on reddit. Why not just keep the same one without the "reddit" word. Lemmy sub -> sub. No need to invent some random words for every instance.

[โ€“] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That works okay as a shortcut since many are used to the term already, plus to get a regular feed you have to subscribe. Like any language, what gets used the most after a while will become the normal term.

[โ€“] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magazines! quickly runs away

[โ€“] kosure@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see why people would hate it. But I actually love magazines. Though "bins" for kbin makes a lot of sense too.

[โ€“] ApollosArrow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I would much prefer bins over magazine. That is a great idea.

the great thing is that magazines doesn't have to be specifically for kbin, making it great to use on lemmy too ;)

[โ€“] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They are called communities!

[โ€“] supermurs@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!