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submitted 1 year ago by falcoignis@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

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[-] bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago
[-] newbiejones@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name

[-] proxzima@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I like this one

[-] Lemmington@sopuli.xyz 60 points 1 year ago

Communities, which have a parent instance.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 30 points 1 year ago
[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

But aren't WE the lemmings?

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly philosophical

[-] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

Dude... You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)

[-] _thayer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 42triangles@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

If someone says "comms" I'm going to think "communications"

but I guess that also technically works ^^

[-] IverCoder@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I saw red vent in comms

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that's how they're called in my reddit clone pet project)

[-] open_world@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

I just thought they were called "communities". At least, that's what the Lemmy UI shows.

[-] konki@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I feel like if the short version isn't "sub" then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn't own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That's what it is in my mind now.

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[-] araquen@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

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”

[-] Neil@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/121

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[-] sup@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

I like communities. I believe that's the the /c/ stands for

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[-] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 18 points 1 year ago

officially, per protocol, it's Groups. but that sucks :)

[-] tebicat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

isn't that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.

[-] guildz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in the lemmy source code they are called "Communities"; in the kbin source code they are called "Magazines"; I think Mastodon uses the ActivityPub lexicon and also uses "Groups" in it's source code. I perfer "Communities" because that is how the "Groups" are being used.

[-] redawl@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

+1 for Communities, since that's what they are called in the official UI and documentation

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[-] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 10 points 1 year ago

@falcoignis On KBin, they're called "Magazines". Not quite sure if I like it. lol.

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[-] WandererLagomorph799@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Sometimes Iused "sublemmies" based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.

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[-] Venus@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

They're communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.

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[-] staticnoise@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

Communities is the name used on my UI.

[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Mine, too. And it's fits the /c/... format.

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[-] PascalSausage@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] MadCybertist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.

[-] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Communities make sense and is easy to remember.

[-] torgeir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Pagliacci@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)

[-] croobat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Fabrik872@apollo.town 8 points 1 year ago

I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] Yadaran@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I'll just call them sublemmys

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[-] mansauce@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

and more importantly, what are lemmy users called? for reddit we have redditors, for lemmy.. lemminors?!

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