I prefer Lemmies
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I prefer this too. Lemming means a small rodent. It's one thing to be apart of a site with a rodent mascot but another thing to refer to myself as a rodent, lol. No thanks. Not to mention the other derogatory definition of the word. Lemmies is cute and close enough to Lemmy.
Edit: I misread the definition of lemming and thought it was a group of rodents that included rats, but they are different creatures belonging to the same superfamily Muroidea that includes rats, mice, and hamsters. But I still don't know if I want to call myself a Lemming. I've already seen people make fun of those here who call themselves Lemmings when I checked out the instance that was recently defederated from lemmy.world. I think it's a name that could be an easy target for those who want to hate on the Lemmy userbase. Why make it easier for them? It could turn off future users. Although I can feel sorry for the animals that their name has some derogatory definitions like being a synonym for sheeple, if we are to call ourselves Lemmings, we need to come up with our own definition of it that's more positive. Even then I don't know how well that will work.
lemchads
I like it tbh XD anything is better than "redditor", I can't get the image of the fat vaping neckbeard with a fedora out of my head
The feeling of the word depends on the feeling of the community, so as long as the community is nice we should be good.
I like it for two reasons. 1) I love that game and it gives me nostalgic memories. 2) It's ironically funny since a Lemming is the exact opposite of what we are just by being here.
There's this saying 'would you jump off a bridge if all your friends did?'.
Well my friends are lovely people, they're smart and wise (some one thing more than the other). They're great friends. So if I imagine myself in a situation where all of them are jumping off a bridge I think my best option, nothing else known, would be jumping too.
So call me a fucking lemming if you want, I was starting to hate that bridge long ago
I vote for lemurs/lemurians
I don't see the relation with lemmy
Am not the first to think this since there is a discontinued lemmy app called lemmur. Plus, lemurians feel less like it's a joke compared to lemmings.
My vote is for Kilmisters
It's fine, though personally i'd rather just say lem or lems for simplicity if anything tbh
Personally, I hate the idea of pet names for any large community.
This one is particularly awful, however. I plan on ignoring it, but if it really does catch on to where it isn’t ignorable it will have an impact on my use of the service.
I don't have any issues with Lemmings. But I prefer lemmers and lemmians.
Lemmy IS god.
Here are some alternatives:
- lemmyans
- lemmynauts
- lemmyzens
Lemmynites please
Federators!
I don't know, what are your thoughts? Should we care? How does everyone else feel about this?
I bet that somewhere, at any given time, I'm being called something. It's a simple byproduct of anyone falling into the universalization trap.
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a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction
That's the joke, and one day our baconed narwhal.
How about federales?
Just call us nerds.
trouser_lemming
Lemmies!
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
Much better to be able to laugh to ourselves and show awareness of the matter. I never liked when people used membership of a community as a badge of honor, 'redditor' included.