On Reddit it’s call Subreddits, will it one day be called Sublemmies?
Afaik “community” is the intended Lemmy term.
If we want to mature and be our own thing it’s also a good idea to separate ourselves from Reddit, otherwise Lemmy will always be considered a “Reddit clone” (even though it technically started as one and still is).
Yeah like I enjoy this “voting” system more too, it’s just shows both how many people agree and disagree with a comment and it’s more informational that way
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I was specifically referring to Lemmy, not the ActivityPub protocol in general.
Lemmy is a Reddit clone the same way as PixelFed is an Instagram clone, Mastodon is a Twitter clone and PeerTube is a YouTube clone.
I don’t use “clone” as a derogatory term, there’s nothing wrong with getting inspired by other sites and implementing something better.
I like communities. Fits in with the URL too since it’s /c/
It’s almost like the /c/ stands for communities just like /m/ stands for magazines on kbin. What a coinkydink.
When you call it what it is, a community (straight from the documentation), you dont ever have to explain what that means. When you call it a “sublemmy”, that means nothing to anyone, and you have to explain it every time . I know which I prefer.
Just community, no need for corny names
I think instead of sublemmies as we’re already a community we combine the two and call ourselves commies.
You don’t think anyone else is already using it do you?
What is wrong with using communities? By the way, in kbin they are called magazines.
communities sound better
and their name doesnt need to be explained
Actually, on reddit they’re reddits, which you can tell from the /r/ subdirectory in the corresponding URL.
Even back on Reddit I tended to call them groups, communities, fora, etc. Sublemmy is a cute word but I’d hate to have to say it to a nonline person, and I feel like it gives Reddit too much sway if we just migrate all the terms to this new space
I would probably call them ‘boards’. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it’s not universal.
Rather than juggle so many terms, I’ve started headcanon-ing communities and magazines as generic “subs.”
I’m on kbin and they are called magazines, but I think communities are a better catch all. Everyone knows what you mean by that
Magazines is an absolutely terrible name. It makes zero sense