What should individual communities on Lemmy be called?
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:
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.
I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?
You know what? I didn't think about that!
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?
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:
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.
You do have a point. And while I was arguing all for accessibility, I feel an argument for 'accessibility' can also be made the other way. When people have an easier time connecting with an idea emotionally, it can make it easier for them to learn about it. So yeah, I guess it isn't as obvious as I tried to make it look. I have no conclusion yet.
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
Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it's free for the taking.
Wait really? What are they called?
What term are they using?
Ironically, they've been calling them Communities officially since around when New Reddit launched.
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 think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe "Burrows"
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.
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.
Just community
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
I think lemmings have their homes under ground, so maybe "Burrows"
Ooooh really unique suggestion!
Commies 💛
Commies full of Leminists!
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.
I called them Sublemmys But I LOVE LEMMINGS!
(The game and also the suggestion)
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 ;)
While lemmings don’t often congregate in groups, when they do, it’s called a “slice”. It sounds kinda awkward, but a slice is also a fraction of a larger whole. We can also bring back the term “homeslice” to denote your home page where you only see subscribed slices.
You know too much about lemmings...