On Reddit it’s call Subreddits, will it one day be called Sublemmies?
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Just community, no need for corny names
Afaik “community” is the intended Lemmy term.
If we want to mature and be our own thing it’s also a good idea to separate ourselves from Reddit, otherwise Lemmy will always be considered a “Reddit clone” (even though it technically started as one and still is).
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I was specifically referring to Lemmy, not the ActivityPub protocol in general.
Lemmy is a Reddit clone the same way as PixelFed is an Instagram clone, Mastodon is a Twitter clone and PeerTube is a YouTube clone.
I don’t use “clone” as a derogatory term, there’s nothing wrong with getting inspired by other sites and implementing something better.
But why just specifically refer to lemmy when there’s so much more going on than just lemmy. Lemmings and sublemmies are going to put a lot of people off on account of them being so cutesy try-hard. Just go with communities so you’re not being divisive and exclusionary.
I like communities. Fits in with the URL too since it’s /c/
communities sound better
and their name doesnt need to be explained
Since this is the “fediverse”, it makes much more sense to use general terms than things specific to a platform. There’s already /kbin, and there may be other link aggregator software platforms that appear in the future, and having a standardised set of vocabulary that all platforms can use makes it much easier for everyone to understand.
/kbin calls them magazines and there’s sometimes been some confusion over the term and Lemmy having communities, even though they are the same thing. All the microblogging platforms on the fediverse for example just have “posts” and “boosts”, there is no specific term for them like “tweets” on Twitter (there was the “toot” thing for Mastodon for a while, but it was quickly rolled back and hasn’t been official for several years).
Don’t forget that when you post on Lemmy, you’re not posting “to Lemmy”, you’re posting to the wider “fediverse”.
Kbin magazines combine a ActivityPub Group ( what a Lemmy calls a “community”) with a hashtag search, so they are a bit different than what’s on Lemmy.
I just don’t know that anyone’s actually using the hashtag feed on kbin.
I have seen the term toot thrown around a lot for the name of a Mastodon post.
A bit of back story on this: the Mastodon creator named them toots as a bit for celebrity attention, then, later, he renamed them to posts to be taken seriously. Now people on many different platforms call their posts toots, but post and status are equally valid (the status name comes from the api specification)
When you call it what it is, a community (straight from the documentation), you dont ever have to explain what that means. When you call it a “sublemmy”, that means nothing to anyone, and you have to explain it every time . I know which I prefer.
Even back on Reddit I tended to call them groups, communities, fora, etc. Sublemmy is a cute word but I’d hate to have to say it to a nonline person, and I feel like it gives Reddit too much sway if we just migrate all the terms to this new space
I always felt “subreddit” was silly. I call them communities, even on reddit and that word works for me.
Honestly even on reddit, id call them forums to non reddit users. Subreddits was awkward to use in IRL conversation.
I’m on kbin and they are called magazines, but I think communities are a better catch all. Everyone knows what you mean by that
Magazines is an absolutely terrible name. It makes zero sense
personally i like the fact that referencing a “subreddit” points to the fact that you are talking about a community that is on reddit, as opposed to the wider community around a topic. for example, if you say “i frequent the futurama community”, people will still not be sure what community you are actually talking about.
i think lemmy should have a unique name system for its communities.
I would probably call them ‘boards’. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it’s not universal.
What is wrong with using communities? By the way, in kbin they are called magazines.
Rather than juggle so many terms, I’ve started headcanon-ing communities and magazines as generic “subs.”
well internally (in the context of activitypub) they are called “groups” 🤓
