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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A group of lemmings is called a “slice”.

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

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

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I like it.

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I like slice.

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zesty!

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I like the idea of a Slice!

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A sublemmy?

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Why not just community? It’s already called a community everywhere on the instances and its /c/ in the url. Imo it should start with a C no matter what

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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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I understand, but theyre called subreddits by reddit. Lemmy calls them communities all over the instances. If the users suddenly start calling them something else it would get confusing

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How about “cub”.

Like, “we need a cub for this”.

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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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What’s it mean?

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Or pups, since a baby lemming is called a pup?

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

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Communities -> commies

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

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Ok, so cum for short then?

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cunts

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I’d say cummies for the extra cringe factor.

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Community => Cums

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

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But third grade is where my humor peaked!

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