Community is fine, please, no cutesy nicknames.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Personally I prefer Community, it is nicely neutral and conveys the correct message I think. If people think that's too broad, then "sub" is a solid short option.
Lemmings.
This has been used for "redditor" by now btw.
same thing....
Hexbear uses "comm"
lemon
Why not just community? It's already called a community everywhere on the instances and its /c/ in the url. Imo it should start with a C no matter what
Definitely should be community. And I was hoping we could all leave the 3rd grade humor behind on reddit
But third grade is where my humor peaked!
Yep. And can easily be shortened to com or comms.
Communities -> commies
People always referred to subreddits as a sub or community anyway. Easy.
Ok, so cum for short then?
cunts
A group of lemmings is called a "slice".
If we're not going for community I'd vote for this.
Honestly, I think the answer is obvious β¦ same as it was before β¦ βSubβ.
Especially as kbin uses βmagazineβ for its communities, which means we need a short hand that is not specific. βSubβ captures the idea perfectly well and obviously carries over the Reddit analogy.
My vote would be keep βCommunityβ as the long form name, as itβs a good description of what it is and for. Then short form βsubβ because in essence itβs a subset of the total community.
Mlems
...No, hear me out. If we're lemmings, therefore lems, a community is many lems. So mlems. Also it's catchy.
I kinda like βLemonβ.
I personally use "com" and hope it catches on.
Lemco
I thought LemCom.
Yuck, but now I thought of RomCom lol.
Good question. Similarly I was talking with someone the other day about what a user should be called (Lemming?) and what the act of using Lemmy might be called (also lemming!)
I like Lemmunity :-)
Blink three times if you're contractually obliged to prefer her suggestion/preferring it under duress.
I'd send help but my wife is home.
Lemurs? Lemmings?
Sublems?
I upvote "sublems" or "sublemmies".
Lemmings... Yup. I like that.
Lemmings should refer to the users
I kind of wish the term from Kbin would catch on, Magazines.
Sublemmy? Sublem?
A sublemmy?
Lmao, everything sounds like LeBron naming memes or whatever it's called. π
This reminds me of the good ol memes with "le me":
This may be a dumb question: but how do I zoom in on this pic?
Rage comics were the golden age of memes, to be honest.
A burrow.
I'm officially calling communities burrows now. It's done. And a crosspost can be a borrow.
Going with c/ how about "circle"
And so we come back to Google+
If Subreddit -> Sub...
Then Community -> Commune ?
Seems apt given the developer's political leanings. But it wouldn't be as inviting to neutral users, so 'sub' seems to be fine to me.
lunatic
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