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Someone know what is the “lore” or why lemmy use “c/“, in reddit is r/ to communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Camus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r=subReddit c=Community

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but why don't Lemmy instances use "reddit.com" as their URL? We may never figure this stuff out 😞

[–] ivenoidea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What’s the lore reason why Lemmy uses some dumb animal as it’s mascot and not a cool alien?