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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 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communities. They're called communities.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Comms?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

moons

Short for 'munities.

They orbit the central world of the instance.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zdrvr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Digg was two sites ago...try to keep up.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

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

MΕ«ns, if anyone asks for clarification.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BlessedDog@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I love this, gonna start calling them that.

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dom@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't the short form of communist just "socialist"?

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, no, the short form of communist is Lenin, he was about 5'4.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that makes more sense. Thanks for the correction

[–] ehrenschwan@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

All communists are socialists but not all socialists are communists, it is a broader term.

[–] zdrvr@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Socialism β‰  Communism.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. I was joking. Making fun of the right wing who pretty much use the terms interchangeably

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Just 'c'.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Cums or cummies?

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

I've been calling them forums

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] tox_solid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sorry if I'm being biased, but as a sailor of the High Seas, I hereby present you with !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Warning: May involve discussion of acts that may infringe on your country's laws. You have been warned. Now will ye join our jolly crew?

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sails are hoisted shipmate! Tell the captain we are running downwind heading for the great treasure!

[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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.

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

πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

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

Communities or magazines on kbin.

I do like sublemmies though...

"communities" are what they are called.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Saw someone else post it in similar thread so not taking credit but I liked sublem.

[–] jerebear205@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's a legitimately good name!

[–] AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu 7 points 1 year ago

Easy: c/sublemmunities

[–] bizzle@lemmy.moorefam.net 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Loved that the community kept the name.

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

SubLemmy πŸ‘πŸ»

!skookum@discuss.tchncs.de

discuss.tchncs.de/c/skookum

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