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.
I mean it’s obvious Lemmings
I don’t think we even have a choice.
How very (apocryphally) Lemming!
Pretty sure those lemmings not having a choice wasn’t apocryphal…
I loke lemmings, I think it’s a good reminder about how the dangers of letting any platform influence you too much.
Lemurs. Hence the Jerboa app icon
I think the Jerboa icon is a Jerboa
You might as well be right XD .
Lemmings
Lemmings 100%
If not lemmings, lemmons
Lemmings
with the official client being called Jerboa I think we all agreed that the small rodent analogy was intended from the start
I like Lemurs, idk
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.
🍋s
I think the hivemind has already spoken, but damn, I wish it was Lemons.
a lemonparty, one could say
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 like Lemms.
I’m Lemurican. Lemurica!
Lemmites and Lemmegians are best
I saw someone use “Lemmurs” the other day and I’m sticking with that pending a better idea.
Lemmons
lemonades
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.
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
Huh. and i thought it was named after the guy from motorhead
It’s named after some things: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy