Part of the latest migration wave. Something I realized when looking for communities on google is that “lemmy community” is super clumsy.
Lemmies? Sublems? Underlems?
Communities don’t have the same ring to it, I agree.
Same, let’s just start using it and it’ll catch on.
What happens when multiple servers have the same sublem. Do I have to individually find and follow them all? Seems annoying.
Hmm, after a quick Google - I vote for Slice. That’s what you call a group of lemmings. A slice of lemmings.
Wish we could make slice catch on. Not only for the reason you mentioned, but it also implies that what you are looking at is a part of a whole. So communities are a slice of lemmy.
Similar discussion happening over in general
Sublemmy
The problem lies in the federative aspect of it.
Calling the communities “sublemmies” for example, would mean that people on kbin have to call it like that too. And afaik they are called in a general way for the fediverse, just like how mastodon changed toot to post.
Does this make the platforms less unique? Yes, absolutely, but I don’t think there is a fix for it.
