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What should individual communities on Lemmy be called? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Schooner@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?

My personal vote is for lemmings!

Edit: I am personally leaning towards Sublemmy now. It retains the context of being a forum under the general sphere of Lemmy and the connection to Reddit lets people know immediately what Lemmy is about. Thanks to @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one for the comment!

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[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is "communities" 😅

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly.

Let's not overcomplicate this. People trying to come up with a name for something that already has one. Lol.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

That's a very important point. Some of us probably still remember the learning curve when coming to lemmy. Everyone has heard how others complained about it, or would not join in the first place.

Creating ambiguous terms and multiple definitions for the same things is one unecessary way to make life harder for everyone.

More reasons:

the documentation calls it community
the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/

[–] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I must leave my mark on history or the sands of time will forget me!

[–] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!

[–] Schmogel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/