Communities - they’re abbreviated to /c/ and that seems a pretty consistent term.

I usually will say or type “community”.

Read your question back. What did YOU call them? Yeah, that’s what they’re called.

The answer is in the title. Thank you.

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.”

They are called communities or coms for short on Lemmy, and they’re magazines or mags on Mbin/Kbin.

Community seems to be the de facto name but I really don’t like that. We need to agree on something else.

Coms

Burrows, since they’re what lemmings live in.

Community or if we’re just spitballin’ here, it could be Sublemmit

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.

Reddit wants you to call them communities too, but most people still call them subreddits or subs.

LOL

Commies