OK, so as a new lemmy user (hello, world!), I keep saying subreddits for categories/communities. I feel like we should come up with a new creative term. Like…lemmings? lemmons? sublemminals?

  • amcjv12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I like “cliffs” on the theory that users are called lemmings, so the communities are the cliffs we choose to run off together

    • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      We can, but the word is long and not catchy. Subreddit is also long, but it could be shortened to just “sub” and everyone’d know what you were talking about. “Sub” is what gives the word meaning after all. Shortening community to “com” just isn’t the same.

      Also, you could mention the word “subreddit” offline and people would know you meant a community on reddit in particular. “Community” is a very generic term.

      Sublemmy, which some have proposed, fixes these issues, but it comes with the side effect of being yet another thing we take from reddit, which can be offputting to those who want Lemmy do be its own thing rather than just where reddit users migrated to.