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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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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this a joke question? You used the term yourself: "Communities".

On kbin, they are called "magazines".

[–] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago

You do have a point. And while I was arguing all for accessibility, I feel an argument for 'accessibility' can also be made the other way. When people have an easier time connecting with an idea emotionally, it can make it easier for them to learn about it. So yeah, I guess it isn't as obvious as I tried to make it look. I have no conclusion yet.