Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?
My personal vote is for lemmings!
Edit: I am personally leaning towards Sublemmy now. It retains the context of being a forum under the general sphere of Lemmy and the connection to Reddit lets people know immediately what Lemmy is about. Thanks to @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one for the comment!
Lemmings makes more sense to be the users
I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?
Users are called lemmings. Communities are called communities on lemmy and magazines on kbin. Communities makes more sense to me.
You know what? I didn’t think about that!
I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is “communities” 😅
Exactly.
Let’s not overcomplicate this. People trying to come up with a name for something that already has one. Lol.
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/
I actually forgot about the URL and didn’t even think about the documentation! Great points!
I must leave my mark on history or the sands of time will forget me!
Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!
I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/
I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!
Lemmy says what they call them in the title bar, so they already have a name, communities. Seems projects tend to use their own nomenclature, Kbin calls them magazines.
There’s no official term for Lemmy users. Lemmings would be appropriate, though not particularly flattering.
Commies 💛
Commies full of Leminists!
They are called communities!
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?
I’m not sure. Let me Google that real quick to see.
Showing your age there.
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.
Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it’s free for the taking.
Wait really? What are they called?
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.
Sublemmy
I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!
(The game and also the suggestion)
Magazines! quickly runs away
I can see why people would hate it. But I actually love magazines. Though “bins” for kbin makes a lot of sense too.
