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So subreddit=subs as communities=comms? I'm not typing communities all the time lmao.
call them commies
community+lemmies -> commies, sounds pretty natural to me
presumably new slang will be developed as the communities mature.
yeah, over on hexbear comms is the usual parlance anyway. the wider lemmy population with the new reddit people might change that though
If the official name is magazines, then why not use "mags"?
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
Just call them sublemmies so we can just type subs.