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Part of the latest migration wave. Something I realized when looking for communities on google is that "lemmy community" is super clumsy.

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[–] pinwurm 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hmm, after a quick Google - I vote for Slice. That’s what you call a group of lemmings. A slice of lemmings.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wish we could make slice catch on. Not only for the reason you mentioned, but it also implies that what you are looking at is a part of a whole. So communities are a slice of lemmy.

[–] pinwurm 4 points 1 year ago

Guess you can always … try it, see if it catches on.

“””You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” -Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott” - pinwurm

[–] Klear 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, that's amazing!

...meaning it will never catch on, but still. Great find.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooo I kinda like this a lot! How do we get this to be official?

[–] pinwurm 5 points 1 year ago

Could always ask the devs?

Kbin can their communities Magazines, so people are okay with alternate names for communities already.

Then again trends catch on in weird ways. What we end up calling them might be something we haven’t heard suggested yet.

[–] Saint_of_Illusion 3 points 1 year ago

Here and now, we take a stand and use "slice" exclusively. It's so fetch!