Spyke

Is there a short name for "Lemmy Community"?

Coming from Reddit, the term subreddit was easy. Is there already a short name for Lemmy Communities?

Lemmity?

Lemmunity?

Sublemmit? (My wife's suggestion, now my current favorite.)

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lemmy.world

People always referred to subreddits as a sub or community anyway. Easy.

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Thavronreply
lemmy.ca

Yep. And can easily be shortened to com or comms.

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promitheasreply
iusearchlinux.fyi

But subreddits are called Subreddits and have the format /r/subreddit_name.

Also, community is in my opinion

  • too long to type out for something we will be using very often
  • the word already has a meaning

It might be better to simply use another dedicated word

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jossboreply
lemmy.ml

How about "cub".

Like, "we need a cub for this".

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TheOPtimalreply
lemmy.ml

i don't think you know the meaning behind that word and i don't want to be the one that tells you...

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Ah. Yes, I did not think of that 😅

But to be fair, 'sub' has another meaning as well.

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BigFigreply
lemmy.world

Definitely should be community. And I was hoping we could all leave the 3rd grade humor behind on reddit

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Hmm... short and sweet, with a "tip of the hat" to our old reddit world. This might catch on.

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The adjective being: "subleminal"

Fun to say, but I'm not sure how I'd use that in a sentance.

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feddit.de

A group of lemmings is called a "slice".

If we're not going for community I'd vote for this.

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tajreply

I like slice! A slice of life... A slice of the lemmingverse 😁

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PotjiePigreply
lemmy.world

I'm officially calling communities burrows now. It's done. And a crosspost can be a borrow.

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lemmy.world

I upvote "sublems" or "sublemmies".

Lemmings... Yup. I like that.

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lemmy.world

Good question. Similarly I was talking with someone the other day about what a user should be called (Lemming?) and what the act of using Lemmy might be called (also lemming!)

I like Lemmunity :-)

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Is this the first great flamewar of the Lemmy era? Lemmunity or DEATH, say I! ;-)

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Personally I prefer Community, it is nicely neutral and conveys the correct message I think. If people think that's too broad, then "sub" is a solid short option.

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Mlems

...No, hear me out. If we're lemmings, therefore lems, a community is many lems. So mlems. Also it's catchy.

Edit: Well fuck. Obviously not an ios user -.-

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lemmy.world

Lmao oops I didn't even realize it was a Google+ thing. I kinda forgot Google+ was a thing, tbh.

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Baby rodents are called a pup, can we call it a pup please?

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Blink three times if you're contractually obliged to prefer her suggestion/preferring it under duress.

I'd send help but my wife is home.

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Honestly, I think the answer is obvious … same as it was before … “Sub”.

Especially as kbin uses “magazine” for its communities, which means we need a short hand that is not specific. “Sub” captures the idea perfectly well and obviously carries over the Reddit analogy.

My vote would be keep “Community” as the long form name, as it’s a good description of what it is and for. Then short form “sub” because in essence it’s a subset of the total community.

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Mjb
feddit.uk

You need a single syllable alternative. "Sub" existed for Reddit, guessing "Lem" is the only option available here.

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Mjbreply

In hindsight, I expect it'll just remain "sub". Neither "com" nor "lem" are good enough to not just re-use "sub".

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On desktop I just use Imagus. Hovering over an image (or image link) displays it at the cursor in its full size. Unbelievably useful.

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"Lethargic"

Haha r/NBA memes are about to cross over to Lemmy even before the NBA Lemmy community starts!

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I liked your wifes suggestion of Sublemmit, but I would compact it more and perhaps call it a Sublem? Much quicker to type out.

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lemmy.world

How about commune? Short and sweet, and goes with the c/ in the url

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Puls3reply
lemmy.ml

Com feels like company or .com which also stands for company. Doesn't feel right at all.

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isoreply
lemmy.com.tr

This has been used for "redditor" by now btw.

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If Subreddit -> Sub...
Then Community -> Commune ?

Seems apt given the developer's political leanings. But it wouldn't be as inviting to neutral users, so 'sub' seems to be fine to me.

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Commy

(Yea, this isn't going to go well with the Ammys Americans)

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