Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol
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They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
Communities
I’ll just call them sublemmys
Lemmunities (I pulled it out of my ass, take it or leave it)
I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”
can we call them
commies?oof, id rather call them “comms” or just “cs”(cees)
i come from a country where
commieis never used as a slur, but by the number of replies that i have received that are mildly horrified, i guess that i may need to think of a different name!
Communities. It is an established name.
- The documentation uses it: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/01-getting-started.html
- The browser interface uses it (see top left, see in dropdown menus)
- The unchangeable URL structure uses it (we are in /c/linux@lemmy.ml)
Lemmy is difficult enough to learn for newcomers. Please don’t make it harder for them to join. Don’t force them to learn two terms where one suffices.
Technically communities but I prefer the term sublemmy
This is all very confusing to me
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ah Nice! that’s a pretty clear explanation, thanks 👍
I think part of why it’s confusing is that we don’t have defined names for these things. This is so early in a social media “product” life that there isn’t a common understanding. You’re now part of making those names. It’s a bit exciting but mostly confusing while everyone uses their own terms to mean the same fundamental things. Embrace the chaos!
part of why it’s confusing is that we don’t have defined names for these things.
But we do: Communities.
You find that term in the UI, in user documentation, and the /c/ part of the URL also refers to that.
Calling it anything else, especially unrelated to /c/, will only make it harder and more confusing for new people to join.
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for
Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.
Lemmywinks? South park reference https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Lemmiwinks
Lemmywings? Like different wings of an overall government of lemmys?
Fuck it, call them Lem. Memes is a Sub-Lemmy on Lemmy on the lemmy.nl Lem.
