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 @[email protected] for the comment!
I thought lemmings was for lemmy users. My vote is “communities” 😅
Exactly.
Let’s not overcomplicate this. People trying to come up with a name for something that already has one. Lol.
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/
I must leave my mark on history or the sands of time will forget me!
t. Ozymandias
Yeah but that sounds kinda bland. A good community needs some lore to dig through to make it more interesting!
I suggest cliffs. Because lemmings jump down cliffs according to Disney. And it matches with /c/
Lol, but no. I will say that the first day of migration I had used the analogy, with Reddit being Disney forcing the actions of the lemmings to make a choice. But I think in this case what they thought was a cliff was actually a briar patch. How’s that for a combo reference?
Lemmings makes more sense to be the users
You know what? I didn’t think about that!
Users are called lemmings. Communities are called communities on lemmy and magazines on kbin. Communities makes more sense to me.
I mean, a community is made up of its members, so it still seems to fit?
I thought the users of Lemmy were called “Lemons” and the communities themselves were referred to as “Lemon Parties”
Isn’t everyone using these terms?
I’m not sure. Let me Google that real quick to see.
Showing your age there.
Just watch out for those Lemon Stealing Whores.
Lemmy says what they call them in the title bar, so they already have a name, communities. Seems projects tend to use their own nomenclature, Kbin calls them magazines.
There’s no official term for Lemmy users. Lemmings would be appropriate, though not particularly flattering.
Sublemmy. I know it’s uninspired, but we might as well use terminology that people are familiar with. “Community” sounds too vague IMO, it’s better to choose a made up word that doesn’t have a specific dictionary definition.
Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it’s free for the taking.
Wait really? What are they called?
Commies 💛
Commies full of Leminists!
Lemmings sounds better for the Lemmy users (idk if there’s another name already).
Some called it “sub” or “subs” for short on reddit. Why not just keep the same one without the “reddit” word. Lemmy sub -> sub. No need to invent some random words for every instance.
That works okay as a shortcut since many are used to the term already, plus to get a regular feed you have to subscribe. Like any language, what gets used the most after a while will become the normal term.
Is this a joke question? You used the term yourself: “Communities”.
On kbin, they are called “magazines”.
To me, that seems a little too generic. Everyone knows that you’re talking about reddit when you reference a subreddit. I want something that has that immediate recall factor.
Did anyone have troubles to recall or to understand “community”? It’s a quite self-explanatory term, because it is generic.
Also, please consider:
- the documentation calls it community
- the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/
For many, lemmy is already complex and hard to understand. I’m worried things like these (if adopted) would make it even less accessible.
No one will connect a generic term like community to Lemmy. This kinda hurts the awareness of it as a service people can use. Having something more catchy will at least get people asking.
Magazines! quickly runs away
I can see why people would hate it. But I actually love magazines. Though “bins” for kbin makes a lot of sense too.
Oh I would much prefer bins over magazine. That is a great idea.
the great thing is that magazines doesn’t have to be specifically for kbin, making it great to use on lemmy too ;)
I actually thought we Lemmy users were lemmings!
Because we all jumped off the cliff that is reddit? :P
