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I don't even know what sublemmys are called, M pretty sure it's not that

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[–] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 94 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communities. They're called communities.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Comms?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

moons

Short for 'munities.

They orbit the central world of the instance.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

I can dig it.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

MΕ«ns, if anyone asks for clarification.

[–] BlessedDog@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I love this, gonna start calling them that.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Phone starts vibrating ..... that's no moon

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Just 'c'.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I shall hereby always refer to them as /c/'s then.

You don't. We live in the wonderful age of keyboard predictions where you type. Comm and community and communities both pop up as options. You'd have to take extra steps to get it any shorter.

Unless, like anyone with sense, you just type c/ or c/s and have done with it :)

[–] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Cums or cummies?

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 2 years ago

I've been calling them forums

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Gotta be honest: I’m all for communities. Hate magazines.

[–] tox_solid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If we're being honest, I hate magazine less than I hate sublemmy.

I hate u/spez less then I hate sublemmy

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Me too. That magazine thing confused me at the start.

[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like "communities" but the problem is that in a broader context, no one will know what you are talking about. "I saw it in the memes community" sounds too vague. Saying "I saw it on the memes subreddit" is perfectly clear. Because of this, I think "sublemmy" is a better, more descriptive term.

[–] berkat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That’s inherent to the fediverse. You have to specify which instance you’re referring to. The wording between β€œcommunity” or β€œsublemmy” isn’t actually helpful when you have to provide the instance domain anyway.

[–] Jumpinship@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

And sites have always had features like communities and groups, so it's not out of the ordinary to say which service the group is hosted on.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communities or magazines on kbin.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins 7 points 2 years ago

I do like sublemmies though...

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

"communities" are what they are called.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure I can narrow it down that much, but my favorite instance is Solarpunk (slrpnk.net), it's got a load of communities I'm interested in.

[–] AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu 7 points 2 years ago

Easy: c/sublemmunities

[–] bizzle@lemmy.moorefam.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

!trees@lemmy.world

I'm a weed head and it's always nice to talk to like-minded people

[–] EliasChao@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

Loved that the community kept the name.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

SubLemmy πŸ‘πŸ»

!skookum@discuss.tchncs.de

discuss.tchncs.de/c/skookum

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