Spyke

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

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sh.itjust.works

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

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pawb.social

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

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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.

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slrpnk.net

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

Kbin and Kbin call them "magazines".

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pawb.social

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!"

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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.

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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.)

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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."

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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