I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is "communities" π
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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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/
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Lemmings makes more sense to be the users
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 mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?
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?
Showing your age there.
I'm not sure. Let me Google that real quick to see.
Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.
Is this a joke question? You used the term yourself: "Communities".
On kbin, they are called "magazines".
Still looking for an elegant way to refer to both. Comagz? Magnities?
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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.
This one has my vote
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I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe "Burrows"
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.
Officially they're called communities, the issue with that is that when you're trying to mention them in conversation with someone outside of Lemmy, you often have to use the longer "Lemmy Community." Not the end of the world, but something quicker and more distinct might be better.
I wonder as more people join the threadiverse, as its also been nicknamed, the knowledge of community and magazine might be better understood. I do think however the integration could be stream-lined a little better when going between the two.
I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!
OK, so a group of lemmings is called a "slice". That kinda has a nice ring to it, "I joined this slice of the fediverse" or "the mods on this slice are all terrible!!!!"
Yeah, I seem to have missed that memo lol
Because we all jumped off the cliff that is reddit? :P
Just community
Commies π
Commies full of Leminists!
I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe "Burrows"
Ooooh really unique suggestion!
Communities is fine imho. One of the things I dont like about Kbin is that they call communities "magazines", which is obscure and doesn't describe what they are; it just seems random for the sake of being different. Way back in yesteryear when we designed websites, we tried to discourage "mystery meat navigation", because your users need to know what they're clicking on without needing to be part of some inside joke.
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.
That works okay as a shortcut since many are used to the term already, plus to get a regular feed you have to subscribe. Like any language, what gets used the most after a while will become the normal term.
Sublemmy
They should be called Winks in honor of the Gerbil King
Lemmings sounds better for the Lemmy users (idk if there's another name already).
Lemons
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.
Oh I would much prefer bins over magazine. That is a great idea.
the great thing is that magazines doesn't have to be specifically for kbin, making it great to use on lemmy too ;)
I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!
(The game and also the suggestion)
While lemmings donβt often congregate in groups, when they do, itβs called a βsliceβ. It sounds kinda awkward, but a slice is also a fraction of a larger whole. We can also bring back the term βhomesliceβ to denote your home page where you only see subscribed slices.
You know too much about lemmings...
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