Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?
My personal vote is for lemmings!
Edit: I am personally leaning towards Sublemmy now. It retains the context of being a forum under the general sphere of Lemmy and the connection to Reddit lets people know immediately what Lemmy is about. Thanks to @[email protected] for the comment!
I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is “communities” 😅
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/
I must leave my mark on history or the sands of time will forget me!
t. Ozymandias
Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!
I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/
Lol, but no. I will say that the first day of migration I had used the analogy, with Reddit being Disney forcing the actions of the lemmings to make a choice. But I think in this case what they thought was a cliff was actually a briar patch. How’s that for a combo reference?
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?
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.
Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.
I’m not sure. Let me Google that real quick to see.
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?
To me, that seems a little too generic. Everyone knows that you’re talking about reddit when you reference a subreddit. I want something that has that immediate recall factor.
Did anyone have troubles to recall or to understand “community”? It’s a quite self-explanatory term, because it is generic.
Also, please consider:
- the documentation calls it community
- the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/
For many, lemmy is already complex and hard to understand. I’m worried things like these (if adopted) would make it even less accessible.
No one will connect a generic term like community to Lemmy. This kinda hurts the awareness of it as a service people can use. Having something more catchy will at least get people asking.
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.
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.
Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it’s free for the taking.
Wait really? What are they called?
This one has my vote
You make a good point.
And yeah, the entire reason I posted this is because communities is just generic. Having a name people connect to the service is good for awareness.
I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!
Yeah, I seem to have missed that memo lol
They are called communities!
I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!
(The game and also the suggestion)
I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe “Burrows”
Burrows is a far better name for instances tho
I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe “Burrows”
Ooooh really unique suggestion!
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.
Commies 💛
Commies full of Leminists!
Sublemmy
Just community
