Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)

    • Ninguém@lemmy.pt
      1·
      2 years ago

      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?

  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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!

  • sup@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for

  • _thayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • 42triangles@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      If someone says “comms” I’m going to think “communications”

      but I guess that also technically works ^^

    • tebicat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      isn’t that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.

      • guildz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • open_world@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.

    • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Way more fun than communities! Plus it speaks to the Reddit exodus in a bit of a tongue in cheek way.

      • Seraph089@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s a nice lighthearted nod to the exodus, and also a nod to the subforums that came before Reddit. Communities may be the “official” name and I try to use it when talking to others, but they’ll always be sublemmys in my head.

        • JohannesOliver@beehaw.orgEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          I think using Communities is respectful to the people that were already doing community on Lemmy before the exodus.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Its prefect, I think the “trade name” for that is “sub” anyways and that’s what they will be called no matter what they are suposed to be called.

    • Pagliacci@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      If anything I think that’ll be what us users end up calling ourselves.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

      • Mane25@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I don’t dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it’s best to leave it to sort itself out organically.

      • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        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.

          • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            That does sound like a good idea, kind of like Reddit’s old multireddit function.