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What should individual communities on Lemmy be called? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Schooner@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Haze@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.