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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communities. They're called communities.

[–] DrQuint 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Comms?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

moons

Short for 'munities.

They orbit the central world of the instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Digg was two sites ago...try to keep up.

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

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

MΕ«ns, if anyone asks for clarification.

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

Phone starts vibrating ..... that's no moon

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

I love this, gonna start calling them that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PriorProject 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Just 'c'.

[–] DrQuint 7 points 2 years ago

I shall hereby always refer to them as /c/'s then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You don't. We live in the wonderful age of keyboard predictions where you type. Comm and community and communities both pop up as options. You'd have to take extra steps to get it any shorter.

Unless, like anyone with sense, you just type c/ or c/s and have done with it :)

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

I've been calling them forums

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

Cums or cummies?

[–] BenDoubleU 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Gotta be honest: I’m all for communities. Hate magazines.

[–] tox_solid 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If we're being honest, I hate magazine less than I hate sublemmy.

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

I hate u/spez less then I hate sublemmy

[–] Jackolantern 14 points 2 years ago

Me too. That magazine thing confused me at the start.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Sorry if I'm being biased, but as a sailor of the High Seas, I hereby present you with [email protected]

Warning: May involve discussion of acts that may infringe on your country's laws. You have been warned. Now will ye join our jolly crew?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sails are hoisted shipmate! Tell the captain we are running downwind heading for the great treasure!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like "communities" but the problem is that in a broader context, no one will know what you are talking about. "I saw it in the memes community" sounds too vague. Saying "I saw it on the memes subreddit" is perfectly clear. Because of this, I think "sublemmy" is a better, more descriptive term.

[–] berkat 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That’s inherent to the fediverse. You have to specify which instance you’re referring to. The wording between β€œcommunity” or β€œsublemmy” isn’t actually helpful when you have to provide the instance domain anyway.

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

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

And sites have always had features like communities and groups, so it's not out of the ordinary to say which service the group is hosted on.

[–] littlewonder 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communities or magazines on kbin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I do like sublemmies though...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

"communities" are what they are called.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure I can narrow it down that much, but my favorite instance is Solarpunk (slrpnk.net), it's got a load of communities I'm interested in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Easy: c/sublemmunities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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I'm a weed head and it's always nice to talk to like-minded people

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

Loved that the community kept the name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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