What does the /c/ at the beginning of a community mean?
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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Most communities that I see have very straightforward names like 'asklemmy'. I have also seen '/c/showethoughts'. What does the '/c/' mean here?
c for "community"
Okay, but this is not a standard then, right? Also, it is just naming, and does not actually add any options/functions, correct?
It's a part of all community URLs. Including asklemmy.
Okay, but then I still don't get why the '/c/' part is only showing for /c/showerthoughts (see screenshot).
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.
I see. So the '/c/' is an unnecessary prefix here, potentially added in error.
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.
Thanks. I understand what threw me off now.
Differentiates the URI from "u" for user/
It means community, like how on reddit it was /r/ for subReddit
I want to joke about the C word.