Is it a sublemmy? How would you link to it, just like L/whatever?
Most people call sublemmys communities. You can link to them like this !asklemmy@lemmy.world
Can we just use normal words? How about “community”?
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I’ve called it sublems or sublemmies before and been crucified for it. People don’t like the association with the bad place. So I just call it a “community” like most people.
that’s a bummer cuz ‘subs’ is as old as the BBS days in the 80’s/90’s. I have no idea why we called them subs either. sub-threads maybe? Every BBS had a general sub, a for sale sub, a religion sub (to contain the arguments) etc.
A forum would have subforums, hence subs. Forums nested under the overarching forum. So sublemmies is a natural extension of that, in the same way subreddits was.
But, ultimately if people don’t like the term, that’s cool - I have no horse in this race other than trying to remember to use “communities” for Lemmy and “magazines” for kbin depending on where they originated. :)
I kinda want to use subs because its so much shorter than communities, and if you shorten community, you get com which is unclear.
Sublems is such a better word than community in my opinion. “Coms” doesn’t feel right as an abbreviation
Since members are called lemmings, I’ve gotten into the habit of calling them burrows (referencing that actual lemmings live in burrows).
I could get behind this.
I love this, now I wish the devs officially picked the term “burrow” instead of “community”.
Welcome!
When I first joined during the Reddit Revolt, everyone called them communities, hence the C.
Kbin calls them magazines, so there is some variation out there.
I’m curious to know as well
