On Reddit it’s call Subreddits, will it one day be called Sublemmies?

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    1 year ago

    Afaik “community” is the intended Lemmy term.

    If we want to mature and be our own thing it’s also a good idea to separate ourselves from Reddit, otherwise Lemmy will always be considered a “Reddit clone” (even though it technically started as one and still is).

  • Dick Justice@lemmy.world
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    When you call it what it is, a community (straight from the documentation), you dont ever have to explain what that means. When you call it a “sublemmy”, that means nothing to anyone, and you have to explain it every time . I know which I prefer.

  • Matt@lemmy.world
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    Since this is the “fediverse”, it makes much more sense to use general terms than things specific to a platform. There’s already /kbin, and there may be other link aggregator software platforms that appear in the future, and having a standardised set of vocabulary that all platforms can use makes it much easier for everyone to understand.

    /kbin calls them magazines and there’s sometimes been some confusion over the term and Lemmy having communities, even though they are the same thing. All the microblogging platforms on the fediverse for example just have “posts” and “boosts”, there is no specific term for them like “tweets” on Twitter (there was the “toot” thing for Mastodon for a while, but it was quickly rolled back and hasn’t been official for several years).

    Don’t forget that when you post on Lemmy, you’re not posting “to Lemmy”, you’re posting to the wider “fediverse”.

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        A bit of back story on this: the Mastodon creator named them toots as a bit for celebrity attention, then, later, he renamed them to posts to be taken seriously. Now people on many different platforms call their posts toots, but post and status are equally valid (the status name comes from the api specification)

        • Infrapink@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Not quite.

          Hbomberguy, a leftie, YouTuber, offered to pay Eugen Rochko’s development and hosting fees as long as Mastodon posts were called toots. Rochko accepted, not aware that toot can also mean fart (his first language is German). After Rochko realised this and had enough other income that he didn’t have to rely on Hbomberguy, he reverted to the old name, but many users still call them toots because it’s a more fun word.

  • scamper@kbin.social
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    I would probably call them ‘boards’. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it’s not universal.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Actually, on reddit they’re reddits, which you can tell from the /r/ subdirectory in the corresponding URL.

  • Ni@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m on kbin and they are called magazines, but I think communities are a better catch all. Everyone knows what you mean by that

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        1 year ago

        It’s a odd choice, especially with actual print magazines becoming more niche. I assume it has some reason which ties into the history of kbin but I’m a relatively new user so not sure.

  • Nivekk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I always felt “subreddit” was silly. I call them communities, even on reddit and that word works for me.

  • Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    personally i like the fact that referencing a “subreddit” points to the fact that you are talking about a community that is on reddit, as opposed to the wider community around a topic. for example, if you say “i frequent the futurama community”, people will still not be sure what community you are actually talking about.

    i think lemmy should have a unique name system for its communities.

  • snailwizard@lemmy.world
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    Even back on Reddit I tended to call them groups, communities, fora, etc. Sublemmy is a cute word but I’d hate to have to say it to a nonline person, and I feel like it gives Reddit too much sway if we just migrate all the terms to this new space