Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol
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Sub-Lemminal messages?
I like this one
that’s brilliant actually for a mobile app name
Communities, which have a parent instance.
Lemmings!!!
But aren’t WE the lemmings?
Surprisingly philosophical
Dude… You just blew my mind. (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)
The use of ‘comm’ and ‘comms’ as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy’s url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.
Like ‘sub’ and ‘subs’, they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.
If someone says “comms” I’m going to think “communications”
but I guess that also technically works ^^
I saw red vent in comms
When someone says “sub”, I think “dom”
Or sandwich, depends on my mood.
I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.
So “coms” for short?
Commies
⚒️✊
🔨
I feel like if the short version isn’t “sub” then it is never going to stick. Reddit doesn’t own words but it has set the standard. Sublemmies. That’s what it is in my mind now.
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just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)
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.
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”
The official term is “community” as noted in one of the earlier github commits:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/b0a6fefcf9dc861ae0b4757154050ec3f14ac14f
You can see a full discussion of the issue below:
can we call them
commies?no
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!
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Hell yeah
classic
I love it! 🚩🚩
The “commies” like the comunists? I suppose that does not work
+1 for Communities, since that’s what they are called in the official UI and documentation
I like Lemmings. Has a ring to it.
@falcoignis On KBin, they’re called “Magazines”. Not quite sure if I like it. lol.
Idea for next social media platform: call them circles.
One more: exactly like lemmy but call them rooms.
Another: exactly like every other one but call them… groups (ups, you might have to fight google though - “groups” might be trademarked!)
Sorry for the sarcasm, but shouldn’t this be set in the spec for the fediverse protocol already?
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Because you fill them with bullets (posts and comments)?
officially, per protocol, it’s Groups. but that sucks :)
isn’t that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.
Yeah, in the lemmy source code they are called “Communities”; in the kbin source code they are called “Magazines”; I think Mastodon uses the ActivityPub lexicon and also uses “Groups” in it’s source code. I perfer “Communities” because that is how the “Groups” are being used.
Sometimes Iused “sublemmies” based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.
I like this one because I read and say it as su-blie-mies.
I’ve seen sub-lemmy being used which is cute, but has the obvious ties to Reddit. I guess we all get to work this out together!
Work what out? They’re communities. Not sure why there should be a different name to them honestly other than their official name.
Agreed. Communities make sense and is easy to remember.
They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.
Petition to name them SubLemmys
I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less… y’know, reddity?
And also, it’s much more intuitive.
I think “sub” is what people are going to call them reguardless. It is just internet language at this point, a subdivision of a community (by community I mean lemmy as a whole) is called a sub. Weather it’s a subreddit or sublemmy. I’m not saying bring reddit with us, I am just saying the internet can take the term “sub” with it and use it elsewhere.
Personally that term makes me a bit uneasy. To me it sounds too grandiose and organized just for something that might just be some random people shitposting or chatting about their interests. And actually having tight knit communities can easily lead to all kinds of negative effects, group think, hierarchies and drama.
Of course some subreddits, forums, lemmy communities etc can be actual communities but just as a personal preference I don’t like the idea of calling them that default.
I don’t like the term community because it’s difficult to understand the hierarchy. Is an instance a part of a community? Or vice versa?
What do you think of subinstance?
To me subinstance sounds more like a technical term, but I guess people would just call them subs anyway. I think that’s a problem in general with deriving anything from “instance”.
I guess community does a good job at being a more human centric term. You have the technical side of things, servers and software (instances) and on those you have the actual user facing parts (communities) so in that way it’s kinda fitting.
Further overthinking about the terminology I just realised that Lemmy calls joining communities “subscribing” and Reddit calls it “joining”, while I would naturally think it would be more fitting the other way around. Naming things is hard.
Instances also need better names.
Why not “servers”? That’s all they are. They serve content.
Because technically, one server can host multiple instances. Instances are containerized— literally an instance of lemmy.
Is there any practical reason to actually do that, though?
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I’m sorry, I don’t really understand, what would be the advantage of this over hosting another community?
Can you give me an example of this catering where the server would want different rules per instance?
Sorry, i’m not trying to be rude I just genuinely don’t get it.
Sublemminals? (or Sublemmynals)
new to lemmy…
if there different “linux” communities on different instances? does this mean i have to subscribe to all of them? is there a way to see all content from communities called “linux” from different instances?
or does each “linux” community simply fight for critical mass to become the “main” linux community on lemmy?
thanks
There could be different linux communities on different instances, and to see them all you’d have to subscribe to them and sort by subscribed view. But yeah, in practice most of the time there will emerge one “main” linux community and, if it gets big enough, likely offshoot communities for different philosophies or more specificity.
A “merge identical” option in the individual users’ ui would be kind of neat, to have one page.
That does sound like a good idea, kind of like Reddit’s old multireddit function.
Sublemmies?
I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.
Lemmings.
I think it’d be more fun to just call us Lemurs
