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Lemmy, what do you call users of Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't think that about lemmings

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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.