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Is there a short name for "Lemmy Community"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lettruthout@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Coming from Reddit, the term subreddit was easy. Is there already a short name for Lemmy Communities?

Lemmity?

Lemmunity?

Sublemmit? (My wife's suggestion, now my current favorite.)

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[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] thesalamander@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People always referred to subreddits as a sub or community anyway. Easy.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, so cum for short then?

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

cunts

[–] paragonsphoenix@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I laughed too hard at this

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Community => Cums

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But subreddits are called Subreddits and have the format /r/subreddit_name.

Also, community is in my opinion

too long to type out for something we will be using very often
the word already has a meaning

It might be better to simply use another dedicated word

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I understand, but theyre called subreddits by reddit. Lemmy calls them communities all over the instances. If the users suddenly start calling them something else it would get confusing

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. And can easily be shortened to com or comms.

[–] gylotip@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Communities -> commies

[–] jossbo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about "cub".

Like, "we need a cub for this".

[–] TheOPtimal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

i don't think you know the meaning behind that word and i don't want to be the one that tells you...

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely should be community. And I was hoping we could all leave the 3rd grade humor behind on reddit

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

But third grade is where my humor peaked!