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What do we call communities in Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Count042@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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What do we call the equivalent of a subreddit?

Sublemmy doesn't quite roll off of the tongue as nicely.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 98 points 4 months ago

Communities - they're abbreviated to /c/ and that seems a pretty consistent term.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I usually will say or type "community".

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 months ago

A /c/ommunity

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Woah I never speak of lemmy

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Read your question back. What did YOU call them? Yeah, that's what they're called.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

For clarification, it's communities, not sublemmies.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The "official" word is "community", which you can see in various parts of the UI.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Magazine!

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

On Mbin or Kbin, sure, but not Lemmy

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 21 points 4 months ago

The answer is in the title. Thank you.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

We call them "communities", though I've been saying "munis" for short.

Kbin and Kbin call them "magazines".

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Kbin and Kbin

This sounds like a lawfirm name you'd see advertised on TV.

"Did your post get unjustly deleted? Unfair moderator actions? Admins getting you down? Call Kbin and Kbin for a free consultation TODAY!"

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

Mbin got autocowronged, haha

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Arrested Development S4E5 "A New Start"

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Moonies

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I just discovered my neighbor is a moonie, and proudly described himself as such.

I was surprised as I thought it was a derogatory term for them.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

though I've been saying "munis" for short.

“comms” is my go-to.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

Apparently, in the underlying ActivityPub protocol, they're called "groups".

Usenet bridge when, smart people? (The cost of doing it properly might well be prohibitive though.)

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

You just answered your own question in the title, you call them communities. It's what they are called by the Lemmy-UI software, and also why they have the /c/ prefix in their URLs.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've always thought we should call then "dens" (in honor of lemmings) or something like "gigs" or "venues" (in honor of Lemmy), but I stick with "communities."

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I like this idea.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Dens is good

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

They are called communities or coms for short on Lemmy, and they're magazines or mags on Mbin/Kbin.

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Community seems to be the de facto name but I really don't like that. We need to agree on something else.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Burrows, since they're what lemmings live in.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

I usually call them boards when I can't remember the name "community". There are lots of kinds of community. An instance might well be a community if you are browsing local. Board is shorter and my brain wants to use that word anyway.

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

Coms

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Community or if we're just spitballin' here, it could be Sublemmit

[–] smackjack@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Reddit wants you to call them communities too, but most people still call them subreddits or subs.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

lemmy community

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Commies

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are on lemmy.ml

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

They're just pretending to be communist in order to spread Kremlin propaganda to gullible people who are dissatisfied with their own countries.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I vote we call them lems.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.

[–] slice@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

a sub

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Honestly I think we can just call them "subs" like we did on Reddit. "Sublemmy" sounds clunky but sub still works and we all know what it means.

[–] Boinkage@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Sublemmy. Plural sublemmies.