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What should individual communities on Lemmy be called? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?

My personal vote is for lemmings!

Edit: I am personally leaning towards Sublemmy now. It retains the context of being a forum under the general sphere of Lemmy and the connection to Reddit lets people know immediately what Lemmy is about. Thanks to @[email protected] for the comment!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did anyone have troubles to recall or to understand "community"? It's a quite self-explanatory term, because it is generic.

Also, please consider:

the documentation calls it community
the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/

For many, lemmy is already complex and hard to understand. I'm worried things like these (if adopted) would make it even less accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No one will connect a generic term like community to Lemmy. This kinda hurts the awareness of it as a service people can use. Having something more catchy will at least get people asking.