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What should individual communities on Lemmy be called? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 @[email protected] for the comment!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 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.

[–] skybreaker 1 points 2 years ago

This one has my vote

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Wait really? What are they called?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What term are they using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ironically, they've been calling them Communities officially since around when New Reddit launched.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

You make a good point.

And yeah, the entire reason I posted this is because communities is just generic. Having a name people connect to the service is good for awareness.