Part of the latest migration wave. Something I realized when looking for communities on google is that “lemmy community” is super clumsy.
They already have a name, straight from the documentation: “communities”. You can call something a “community” and everyone knows exactly what you mean. Call it something contrived like a “sublemmy” and you have to explain it every time.
A non-generic name would probably help with search results though, seeing as you have to type Lemmy communities for Google to understand that’s the kind of results you want.
Hmm, after a quick Google - I vote for Slice. That’s what you call a group of lemmings. A slice of lemmings.
Ooo I kinda like this a lot! How do we get this to be official?
Could always ask the devs?
Kbin can their communities Magazines, so people are okay with alternate names for communities already.
Then again trends catch on in weird ways. What we end up calling them might be something we haven’t heard suggested yet.
Wish we could make slice catch on. Not only for the reason you mentioned, but it also implies that what you are looking at is a part of a whole. So communities are a slice of lemmy.
Here and now, we take a stand and use “slice” exclusively. It’s so fetch!
Sublemmy
This has been discussed before, so I’ll just copy my response from there:
The term “community” more or less settled, but if you are looking for something more distinct, there is an idea to call ourselves lemmings and the communities /c/liffs that we jump on. Alternatively we could call ourselves lemmons and the communities /c/itrusses.
