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Most communities that I see have very straightforward names like 'asklemmy'. I have also seen '/c/showethoughts'. What does the '/c/' mean here?

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[โ€“] twistedtxb 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay, but this is not a standard then, right? Also, it is just naming, and does not actually add any options/functions, correct?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a part of all community URLs. Including asklemmy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but then I still don't get why the '/c/' part is only showing for /c/showerthoughts (see screenshot).

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing the user who created "/c/showerthoughts" named it "/c/showerthoughts". You're seeing the community names, and that one is named the same as the URL.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. So the '/c/' is an unnecessary prefix here, potentially added in error.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unnecessary, yes. In error, maybe or maybe not. Some people just may not want to come up with a name apart from the URL and decide to use the URL fragment as the name.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I understand what threw me off now.

[โ€“] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

Or maybe they just didn't enter the name at all so it defaults to the identifier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Differentiates the URI from "u" for user/

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It means community, like how on reddit it was /r/ for subReddit

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I want to joke about the C word.

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