I like lemmings but it might be a bit derogatory. Even with that I still think it’s better than ‘redditors’, which always sounded/looked goofy to me.
Any ideas? What do we call Lemmy users?
My current vote is for lemmings. I think it’s cute.
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Given the rodent theming, lemmings is appropriate. It’s also slightly self-deprecating, which is a plus when it comes to community monikers.
Most of the people migrating from Reddit wouldn’t have much of a problem with self-depreciation.
That’s maybe right haha
Huh. and i thought it was named after the guy from motorhead
More poetic themes via Wikipedia “Lemmings also appear in Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 short story “The Possessed”, where their suicidal urges are attributed to the lingering consciousness of an alien group mind, which had inhabited the species in the prehistoric past.”
The past mascot was an alien
Lemmings
This is the way
lemming would be pretty ok for me too. I am to uncreative to come up with another name lol. maybe lemmys?
I tried transforming the word Lemmy in the same way as demonyms for countries ending in Y just to see how it’d shake out.
Anything calling to anyone? 😅
Germany -> Germans -> Lemmans
Para/Uruguay -> Para/Uruguayans -> Lemmyans
Muscovy -> Muscovites -> Lemmites
Hungary -> Hungarians -> Lemmians
Norway -> Norwegians -> Lemmegians?
Turkey -> Turks? -> Lemms?
Lemmites is the best one
I’m Lemurican. Lemurica!
I loke lemmings, I think it’s a good reminder about how the dangers of letting any platform influence you too much.
Hear me out: *points to username*
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be beetlejuicing here all week. *bows to the audience*
Lemmons
Why is lemmings deregatory, it kinda fits imo
Some old (wrong) thing about lemmings running off a cliff.
Turns out the nature photographers drove the lemmings off a cliff.
I think of blue-jacketed, green haired dudes, when I read Lemmings, but that’s in part because I’m not a native speaker.
I like Lemurs, idk
Not a fan of lemmings, since everything we know about them in popular culture is incorrect - they don’t commit mass suicide - and is suicide really the image we want for ourselves? @Lemminary has the right idea.
I didn’t think that about lemmings
It’s a myth popularized by Walt Disney in a documentary where they made the claim and dumped a bunch of lemmings off a cliff into the sea to prove they did just that.
I saw someone suggest lemons lol
Lemmists?
Lemurians
I am one of them
Us few subscribers to c/Australia will unquestionably be known as ‘Lemingtons’ from here on out.
Lemurians, it is unique and isn’t animal related.
