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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 109 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (41 children)

Seems like the way for reddit to "solve" this is to just close bad subs.

But that's easily exploited, if people migrate to other subs and start protesting the sub closures, those subs get worse and they need to be closed...

Oh no, reddit, did you just discover that you relied on your users to make your site good and by screwing them over you've made your entire business unsustainable at scale?

Also, somewhat related, is there a short snappy name for lemmy communities? Some people call them subs out of habit but I don't wanna do that, and "communities" is four whole syllables, and ain't nobody got time for that.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've seen "Lemmies", I've also seen "sublemmies" which brings "subs" back on the table imo. Alternatives are /c/s, commus, com's, etc.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess "subs" isn't exactly a reddit specific term. I don't even know if it started there tbh.

I've just realised there's nothing wrong with taking some of the language they used, we are after all following the basic link aggregator format.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I remember "subforums" back in the day, so it definitely didn't start with reddit.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like communities and sublemmies.

Coms/commus sounds forced and unnecessary, doubt it’ll catch on.

As for Lemmies, I think that should be a synonym for instances/servers. So, for example, the biggest Lemmy with the most sublemmies would be lemmy.world.

And of course, the users are lemmings.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

“Communes”, populated by “commies”?

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 10 months ago

@Obi /c/s is not long (albeit a bit complicated to write, on phone at least) and it could easily be expanded verbally, so you know that /c/s = communities.

On Friendica, everything that is not a person or a page is displayed as a group. As a Facebook alternative, it does make sense, but for you in the Lemmy world I imagine it would sound a bit bland. 😁

@Excrubulent

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