You just answered your own question in the title, you call them communities. It's what they are called by the Lemmy-UI software, and also why they have the /c/ prefix in their URLs.
I've always thought we should call then "dens" (in honor of lemmings) or something like "gigs" or "venues" (in honor of Lemmy), but I stick with "communities."
I usually call them boards when I can't remember the name "community". There are lots of kinds of community. An instance might well be a community if you are browsing local. Board is shorter and my brain wants to use that word anyway.
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 99 pts · 1y
Communities - they're abbreviated to /c/ and that seems a pretty consistent term.
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y
I usually will say or type "community".
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1y
A /c/ommunity
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Woah I never speak of lemmy
Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 1y
Read your question back. What did YOU call them? Yeah, that's what they're called.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
For clarification, it's communities, not sublemmies.
savvywolf@pawb.social · 26 pts · 1y
The "official" word is "community", which you can see in various parts of the UI.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 1y
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
On Mbin or Kbin, sure, but not Lemmy
AsudoxDev@programming.dev · 21 pts · 1y
The answer is in the title. Thank you.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 1y
We call them "communities", though I've been saying "munis" for short.
Kbin and Kbin call them "magazines".
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 21 pts · 1y
This sounds like a lawfirm name you'd see advertised on TV.
"Did your post get unjustly deleted? Unfair moderator actions? Admins getting you down? Call Kbin and Kbin for a free consultation TODAY!"
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
Mbin got autocowronged, haha
SatyrSack@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Arrested Development S4E5 "A New Start"
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Moonies
Count042@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I just discovered my neighbor is a moonie, and proudly described himself as such.
I was surprised as I thought it was a derogatory term for them.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
“comms” is my go-to.
Seraph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
palordrolap@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Apparently, in the underlying ActivityPub protocol, they're called "groups".
Usenet bridge when, smart people? (The cost of doing it properly might well be prohibitive though.)
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
You just answered your own question in the title, you call them communities. It's what they are called by the Lemmy-UI software, and also why they have the /c/ prefix in their URLs.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 1y
I've always thought we should call then "dens" (in honor of lemmings) or something like "gigs" or "venues" (in honor of Lemmy), but I stick with "communities."
HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I like this idea.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Dens is good
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
They are called communities or coms for short on Lemmy, and they're magazines or mags on Mbin/Kbin.
HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Community seems to be the de facto name but I really don't like that. We need to agree on something else.
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Burrows, since they're what lemmings live in.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
I usually call them boards when I can't remember the name "community". There are lots of kinds of community. An instance might well be a community if you are browsing local. Board is shorter and my brain wants to use that word anyway.
witty_username@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y
Coms
Tazerface@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Community or if we're just spitballin' here, it could be Sublemmit
smackjack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Reddit wants you to call them communities too, but most people still call them subreddits or subs.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Commies
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
They are on lemmy.ml
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
They're just pretending to be communist in order to spread Kremlin propaganda to gullible people who are dissatisfied with their own countries.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
lemmy community
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
I vote we call them lems.
slice@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
a sub
vxx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Honestly I think we can just call them "subs" like we did on Reddit. "Sublemmy" sounds clunky but sub still works and we all know what it means.
LunarVoyager@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Boinkage@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
Sublemmy. Plural sublemmies.