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What are your favorite sublemmys? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Jumpinship@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 97 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communities. They're called communities.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 13 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 (1 children)

I can dig it.

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

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

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

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

Muns

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

Mūns, if anyone asks for clarification.

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

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

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

I love this, gonna start calling them that.

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Commies, even

[–] 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.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@outpost.zeuslink.net 3 points 2 years ago

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