What should individual communities on Lemmy be called?
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 @BurningnnTree for the comment!
OK, so a group of lemmings is called a "slice". That kinda has a nice ring to it, "I joined this slice of the fediverse" or "the mods on this slice are all terrible!!!!"
Lol, but no. I will say that the first day of migration I had used the analogy, with Reddit being Disney forcing the actions of the lemmings to make a choice. But I think in this case what they thought was a cliff was actually a briar patch. How's that for a combo reference?
That's a very important point. Some of us probably still remember the learning curve when coming to lemmy. Everyone has heard how others complained about it, or would not join in the first place.
Creating ambiguous terms and multiple definitions for the same things is one unecessary way to make life harder for everyone.
Lemmy says what they call them in the title bar, so they already have a name, communities. Seems projects tend to use their own nomenclature, Kbin calls them magazines.
There's no official term for Lemmy users. Lemmings would be appropriate, though not particularly flattering.
While lemmings don’t often congregate in groups, when they do, it’s called a “slice”. It sounds kinda awkward, but a slice is also a fraction of a larger whole. We can also bring back the term “homeslice” to denote your home page where you only see subscribed slices.
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