Lemmings
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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with the official client being called Jerboa I think we all agreed that the small rodent analogy was intended from the start
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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 wouldnβt have much of a problem with self-depreciation.
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More poetic themes via Wikipedia βLemmings 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.β
The past mascot was an alien
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I saw someone suggest lemons lol
I agree with everyone here on this, Lemmings is appropriate. Especially since most of the community likes it, I think choosing something that the community vibes with is important.
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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? π
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
Lemmites and Lemmegians are best
I like Lemms.
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I saw someone use "Lemmurs" the other day and I'm sticking with that pending a better idea.
Seconding Lemmur rhymes with Lemmer of Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the authors of the ActivityPub protocol
Lemmons
Hear me out: *points to username*
Thank you, thank you. I'll be beetlejuicing here all week. *bows to the audience*
I loke lemmings, I think it's a good reminder about how the dangers of letting any platform influence you too much.
Lemminists
@fomo_erotic @Atemu Even through @miv403 decided to downvote your Lemmy comment - I do agree with that version. It sounds so soft π
Lemmings
Lemurs. Hence the Jerboa app icon
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.
Lemmings of course. No need to reinvent the wheel.
lemonades
Lemmings 100%
The Lemon Party. π
As Lemmings was one of my favourite games growing up, that's also gets my vote.
Us few subscribers to c/Australia will unquestionably be known as 'Lemingtons' from here on out.
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If not lemmings, lemmons
lemmites like how the users of luddy were called luddites
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.
lemming would be pretty ok for me too. I am to uncreative to come up with another name lol. maybe lemmys?
+1 for lemming. It just feels really appropriate, and who doesn't like lemmings? They're adorable!
Motorheads
My favorites from this thread are Lemurs, Lemmites and Lemurians, in that order.
Lemmings or Lemmians
Lemmings or Lemmysaurs
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