What I like about 'subreddit' is that it's still very specific when you use it outside of reddit. On reddit you can easily just say 'sub', whereas outside of reddit you'd say 'subreddit' to make it very clear, what specific place you're talking about. If I say '[name] community' outside of lemmy, even someone who uses lemmy wouldn't necessarily know I'm specifically talking about the lemmy community, unless the context already made that very clear. And that distinction can be helpful in a conversation.

Heh. I wouldn't mind either of those ideas, they both sound pretty alright to me.

Arguing from that perspective that would make a lot of sense, yeah. My chain of thought was going more from the sound and what people might want to 'naturally' call them.