Very difficult to discuss with the fiance without know the terminology yet lol

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    just call them communities (I also sometimes just call them topics because that’s how they’re called in my reddit clone pet project)

  • open_world@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    I just thought they were called “communities”. At least, that’s what the Lemmy UI shows.

  • _thayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 years ago

    The use of ‘comm’ and ‘comms’ as short form for communities makes the most sense to me. Lemmy’s url path already uses /c/ as the designation as well.

    Like ‘sub’ and ‘subs’, they are one syllable, and are easy to say and spell.

    • tebicat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      isn’t that an ActivityPub term, not a lemmy term? usually ActivityPub uses different terms than the servers that use it.

      • guildz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, in the lemmy source code they are called “Communities”; in the kbin source code they are called “Magazines”; I think Mastodon uses the ActivityPub lexicon and also uses “Groups” in it’s source code. I perfer “Communities” because that is how the “Groups” are being used.

  • sup@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    I like communities. I believe that’s the the /c/ stands for

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Might as well keep it simple and call it what it is without the branding. There is plenty about a site like reddit that we should carry forward, but plenty were should leave behind, and redundant jargon is the latter.

  • araquen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen “communities,” and my personal conceit is that “like” communities (communities with the same, similar, or synergistic subject matter) are “cohorts” so you don’t have to type “multi-communities”

  • Wanderer Lagomorph@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    2 years ago

    Sometimes Iused “sublemmies” based on what a few others have done, but mostly I just use community or something similar.

  • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    They’re communities. And the different servers/sites are instances.

      • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less… y’know, reddity?

        And also, it’s much more intuitive.

        • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I think “sub” is what people are going to call them reguardless. It is just internet language at this point, a subdivision of a community (by community I mean lemmy as a whole) is called a sub. Weather it’s a subreddit or sublemmy. I’m not saying bring reddit with us, I am just saying the internet can take the term “sub” with it and use it elsewhere.

        • bnaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          Personally that term makes me a bit uneasy. To me it sounds too grandiose and organized just for something that might just be some random people shitposting or chatting about their interests. And actually having tight knit communities can easily lead to all kinds of negative effects, group think, hierarchies and drama.

          Of course some subreddits, forums, lemmy communities etc can be actual communities but just as a personal preference I don’t like the idea of calling them that default.

          • BigUwU@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            2 years ago

            I don’t like the term community because it’s difficult to understand the hierarchy. Is an instance a part of a community? Or vice versa?

            What do you think of subinstance?

            • bnaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              2 years ago

              To me subinstance sounds more like a technical term, but I guess people would just call them subs anyway. I think that’s a problem in general with deriving anything from “instance”.

              I guess community does a good job at being a more human centric term. You have the technical side of things, servers and software (instances) and on those you have the actual user facing parts (communities) so in that way it’s kinda fitting.

              Further overthinking about the terminology I just realised that Lemmy calls joining communities “subscribing” and Reddit calls it “joining”, while I would naturally think it would be more fitting the other way around. Naming things is hard.

          • SpacePirate@lemmy.mlEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            Because technically, one server can host multiple instances. Instances are containerized— literally an instance of lemmy.

                • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  I’m sorry, I don’t really understand, what would be the advantage of this over hosting another community?

                  Can you give me an example of this catering where the server would want different rules per instance?

                  Sorry, i’m not trying to be rude I just genuinely don’t get it.

            • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              But that’s a provider/customer relationship, on the fediverse it isn’t.

              • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                For now. Commercial servers are possible, especially if communities become multi-instance in the future.

                Every mature decentralized service calls them providers. Phone providers, ISPs, email providers, etc. I guess usenet just calls them “news servers”, though.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      new to lemmy…

      if there different “linux” communities on different instances? does this mean i have to subscribe to all of them? is there a way to see all content from communities called “linux” from different instances?

      or does each “linux” community simply fight for critical mass to become the “main” linux community on lemmy?

      thanks

      • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        There could be different linux communities on different instances, and to see them all you’d have to subscribe to them and sort by subscribed view. But yeah, in practice most of the time there will emerge one “main” linux community and, if it gets big enough, likely offshoot communities for different philosophies or more specificity.

          • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            That does sound like a good idea, kind of like Reddit’s old multireddit function.

      • Mane25@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it’s best to leave it to sort itself out organically.

    • Ninguém@lemmy.pt
      2·
      2 years ago

      Idea for next social media platform: call them circles.

      One more: exactly like lemmy but call them rooms.

      Another: exactly like every other one but call them… groups (ups, you might have to fight google though - “groups” might be trademarked!)

      Sorry for the sarcasm, but shouldn’t this be set in the spec for the fediverse protocol already?

  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen sub-lemmy being used which is cute, but has the obvious ties to Reddit. I guess we all get to work this out together!