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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
I think this is the clear winner
Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.
It's a nice lighthearted nod to the exodus, and also a nod to the subforums that came before Reddit. Communities may be the "official" name and I try to use it when talking to others, but they'll always be sublemmys in my head.
I think using Communities is respectful to the people that were already doing community on Lemmy before the exodus.
Its prefect, I think the "trade name" for that is "sub" anyways and that's what they will be called no matter what they are suposed to be called.