Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol
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I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”
The official term is “community” as noted in one of the earlier github commits:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/b0a6fefcf9dc861ae0b4757154050ec3f14ac14f
You can see a full discussion of the issue below:
Awesome, thank you!
can we call them
commies?no
The “commies” like the comunists? I suppose that does not work
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Hell yeah
classic
oof, id rather call them “comms” or just “cs”(cees)
i come from a country where
commieis never used as a slur, but by the number of replies that i have received that are mildly horrified, i guess that i may need to think of a different name!
I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for
Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.
Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
Lemmings.
I think it’d be more fun to just call us Lemurs
just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)
Sub-Lemminal messages?
I like this one
They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
Petition to name them SubLemmys
I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less… y’know, reddity?
And also, it’s much more intuitive.
Personally that term makes me a bit uneasy. To me it sounds too grandiose and organized just for something that might just be some random people shitposting or chatting about their interests. And actually having tight knit communities can easily lead to all kinds of negative effects, group think, hierarchies and drama.
Of course some subreddits, forums, lemmy communities etc can be actual communities but just as a personal preference I don’t like the idea of calling them that default.
I don’t like the term community because it’s difficult to understand the hierarchy. Is an instance a part of a community? Or vice versa?
What do you think of subinstance?
To me subinstance sounds more like a technical term, but I guess people would just call them subs anyway. I think that’s a problem in general with deriving anything from “instance”.
I guess community does a good job at being a more human centric term. You have the technical side of things, servers and software (instances) and on those you have the actual user facing parts (communities) so in that way it’s kinda fitting.
Further overthinking about the terminology I just realised that Lemmy calls joining communities “subscribing” and Reddit calls it “joining”, while I would naturally think it would be more fitting the other way around. Naming things is hard.
@falcoignis On KBin, they’re called “Magazines”. Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
Idea for next social media platform: call them circles.
One more: exactly like lemmy but call them rooms.
Another: exactly like every other one but call them… groups (ups, you might have to fight google though - “groups” might be trademarked!)
Sorry for the sarcasm, but shouldn’t this be set in the spec for the fediverse protocol already?
Didn’t Google have Circles?
I’ve seen sub-lemmy being used which is cute, but has the obvious ties to Reddit. I guess we all get to work this out together!
The use of ‘comm’ and ‘comms’ as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy’s url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.
Like ‘sub’ and ‘subs’, they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.
If someone says “comms” I’m going to think “communications”
but I guess that also technically works ^^
Communities
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I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.
So “coms” for short?
Commies
I feel like if the short version isn’t “sub” then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn’t own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That’s what it is in my mind now.
officially, per protocol, it’s Groups. but that sucks :)
Lemmings!!!
But aren’t WE the lemmings?
Dude… You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
Surprisingly philosophical
