this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
24 points (100.0% liked)

Lemmy

12784 readers
21 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
all 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ablackcatstail@goblackcat.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@5cr33ch3r I believe lemmy calls them communities.

[–] 5cr33ch3r@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago
[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy calls them "communities" but since Lemmy federates over ActivityPub which can have lots of different implementations and Lemmy can speak to them, they can have different names. For example there is kbin which calls them "magazines", another implementation might call them something else.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

The official activitypub term is "group", but yes we just call them communities here. That's why its also /c/

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago

I think the general ActivityPub name is "groups".

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should be just "community"

[–] 5cr33ch3r@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you too

[–] chris@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Loved that show

[–] drk@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Community" as the other replies already mentioned, but how do we abbreviate that? "Sub" worked well imho, but does "com" have the same ring to it? Any better suggestions?

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] drk@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That'll work when typing things online, but not in f2f conversations. I thought about 'com(m)' which will work, typed out in certain contexts, but I think that sounds too much like other words in several languages including English to use in speech. But if you prepend 'lemmy' to that it's quite a distinguishable word that sounds like 'lexicon': lemmycom(m)!

There's a lemmycom for that.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I might just call them lemmies. Like, I was on a lemmy the other day about X. I guess it is ambiguous with the instances and silly if the community is on kbin or whatever, but also it is easy to say.

[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

communities, I call them comms for short

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm thinking that's how you can refer to your fellow community members

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

This is the way!

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Go back to lemmygrad 😁

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago
[–] Richardisaguy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I like subs, and just that

[–] pm_me_your_lofi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)