They're communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
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I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less... y'know, reddity?
And also, it's much more intuitive.
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Sub-Lemminal messages?
that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name
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Communities, which have a parent instance.
+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation
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I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.
Communities is the name used on my UI.
Mine, too. And it's fits the /c/... format.
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I'll just call them sublemmys
Lol I quite like it, at one point reddit was a foreign weird sounding word
Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.
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On Lemmy, they are "communities".
On Kbin, they are "magazines". I am told that "magazine" is a pun in Polish (Kbin's maintainer is Polish).
Having been here all of 30 minutes, referring to them “bins” might be a nice
Did we just witness the birth of viral content in this bin?
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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 ^^
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just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)
Lemmings
If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.
oh snap! you know Lemmy has hit the big time when its a topic of discussion between SOs!
I've been talking about it with a relative, because she really enjoys "popcorn" (i.e. drama).
nerd drama the best drama. :-)
communities
officially, per protocol, it's Groups. but that sucks :)
isn't that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.
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"lemmies" has a nice ring to it
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:
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Sometimes Iused "sublemmies" based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.
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@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
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Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
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!
Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.
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Technically communities but I prefer the term sublemmy
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