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What do we call communities in Lemmy?

What do we call the equivalent of a subreddit?

Sublemmy doesn't quite roll off of the tongue as nicely.

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Reddit wants you to call them communities too, but most people still call them subreddits or subs.

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They are called communities or coms for short on Lemmy, and they're magazines or mags on Mbin/Kbin.

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Communities - they're abbreviated to /c/ and that seems a pretty consistent term.

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You just answered your own question in the title, you call them communities. It's what they are called by the Lemmy-UI software, and also why they have the /c/ prefix in their URLs.

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I usually will say or type "community".

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- Woah I never speak of lemmy
  
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- A /c/ommunity
  
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Read your question back. What did YOU call them? Yeah, that's what they're called.

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- For clarification, it's communities, not sublemmies.
  
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The answer is in the title. Thank you.

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Commies

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- They are on lemmy.ml
  
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  They're just pretending to be communist in order to spread Kremlin propaganda to gullible people who are dissatisfied with their own countries.
  
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The "official" word is "community", which you can see in various parts of the UI.

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- Magazine!
  
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  On Mbin or Kbin, sure, but not Lemmy
  
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We call them "communities", though I've been saying "munis" for short.

Kbin and Kbin call them "magazines".

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- Kbin and Kbin
  
  This sounds like a lawfirm name you'd see advertised on TV.
  
  "Did your post get unjustly deleted? Unfair moderator actions? Admins getting you down? Call Kbin and Kbin for a free consultation TODAY!"
  
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  Mbin got autocowronged, haha
  
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  Arrested Development S4E5 "A New Start"
  
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- though I've been saying "munis" for short.
  
  “comms” is my go-to.
  
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- Moonies
  
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  I just discovered my neighbor is a moonie, and proudly described himself as such.
  
  I was surprised as I thought it was a derogatory term for them.
  
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- Sad that Kbin is now defunct. It's just Mbin now I guess.
  
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- Apparently, in the underlying ActivityPub protocol, they're called "groups".
  
  Usenet bridge when, smart people? (The cost of doing it properly might well be prohibitive though.)
  
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I've always thought we should call then "dens" (in honor of lemmings) or something like "gigs" or "venues" (in honor of Lemmy), but I stick with "communities."

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- Dens is good
  
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- I like this idea.
  
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Community seems to be the de facto name but I really don't like that. We need to agree on something else.

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Burrows, since they're what lemmings live in.

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I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.

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Community or if we're just spitballin' here, it could be Sublemmit

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Leminal spaces

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Coms

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I usually call them boards when I can't remember the name "community". There are lots of kinds of community. An instance might well be a community if you are browsing local. Board is shorter and my brain wants to use that word anyway.

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LOL

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lemmy community

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I vote we call them lems.

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If the whole system is the fediverse, does that make Lemmy a fed?

Communities could be feddies (plural) or feddy (singular)

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a sub

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Honestly I think we can just call them "subs" like we did on Reddit. "Sublemmy" sounds clunky but sub still works and we all know what it means.

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Sublemmy. Plural sublemmies.

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