Some Lemmy users refer to communities as sublems. In which case we can conclude that all posts and comments are subleminal messages.

Those are the users that cannot seem to grasp that Lemmy is NOT Reddit and that Lemmy wasn't created 2 weeks ago. "Sublem" and "Sublemmy" are so cringy it hurts. Please just call them communities.

Coming into an established venue and insisting everything change to be more like what you're used to is certainly A Choice.
I like to think most of it is people just genuinely not realising things already have a name, so as long as we continue to nip the "sublemmy" stuff in the bud it'll peter out. Saw a lot of the same stuff on Mastodon last year but it settled down pretty quick.
- I don't disagree with you but, as someone who has recently jumped ship from Reddit, can you point to a glossary of terms to help us get our jargon down?
  Edit: Formatting hard.
- Well the flip coin is the same. New users coming to a place and using language they feel is natural, and then judging them for not using your own specific terminology is also "A Choice" It's not up to anyone what other people call things.
Maybe let people call them whatever they like?
On Beehaw.org someone suggested "yeehives" as a word for the communities there, it kind of caught on enough to see sporadic use.
It's completely off the wall and I love it.
- That makes it sound like Kanye is involved
- Yeehive sounds like ot was made by some primary school kid in the age of the modern internet trying to be cool and edgy
Instances work for me, as an engineer that verbage comes naturally
- That's different, though, as it refers to the server hosting the communities.
For some reason Connect refers to everything older than 1 week as 1 week ago so my account appears as 1 week old when in reality its getting close to 2 years old

COMMUNITIES ARE COMMUNITIES

Communities has too many sillaby, may be comm or comi is better..
I actually like kbin term, they use term Magazine for community. It can easily shortened as Magz.
- I don't agree with you, community is more memorable and we don't have to be reddit
  I'm going to nip the bud early for any attempt calling it something other than community because lemmy is not reddit so people need to stop trying to make it like reddit with the terminology
  Comi and magz sound really awful and I can see that you're basing it of the reddit term "subreddit"
  Don't try and force redditness (if that even is a word) on lemmy because lemmy is unique in its own way, no one should force it to be like reddit
Four syllables is too many.
- community is the name of lemmy communities and I'm going to hard disagree with anyone who says otherwise because those people are just trying to find some cool new word similar to subreddit because they don't realise that lemmy is unique from reddit, it's not just a replacement for reddit
Sublem and sublemmy are also cringey and stupid
Whoever you people are doing this
please stop
That is literally their name btw, they are literally called that on the interface for lemmy on the Web and in apps