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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 @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one for the comment!

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[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] phazed09@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit no longer refers to subreddits as subreddits officially, so I say it's free for the taking.

[โ€“] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Wait really? What are they called?

[โ€“] skybreaker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

This one has my vote

[โ€“] Schooner@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

You make a good point.

And yeah, the entire reason I posted this is because communities is just generic. Having a name people connect to the service is good for awareness.