Lemmings are cute and I don't mind at all.
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I appreciate it as a self-aware jab at the nature of online communities in general, and it amuses me. Every human is a lemming in some way, shape or form, there's just nothing new under the sun so-to-speak. But by being aware of this tendency we can control our own behavior more consciously and effectively.
Gotta be able to laugh at yourself though, which is a capability that not everybody possesses.
It does kind of lack the same embarrassment that comes from self identifying as a Redditor
Sir, you are a Buddha.
I like self sorting systems. Let the easily offended become offended and go somewhere else. They do have the right to be offended, after all.
Which group of easily offended people is going to be the largest?
- Those who get offended and therefore leave,
- or those who get offended but stay, because their curiosity won't let them go,
- or those who get offended and stay to troll and throw 💩 around and watch the world burn.
Tough to say. But everyone in category 3 would have done it anyway.
Just thinking about how at some point in the future the lemmyverse will be replaced over some dumb shit and the tremendous amount of absolutely trash memes about lemmings jumping off a cliff that follow fills me with joy.
The internet is a cycle and it's fun to witness a new cycle now.
The lemming Wikipedia entry states lemmings seek out new habitats whenever population density gets too large. Kinda fitting to the reddit migration. Also loosely related to federations in terms of multiple habitats.
I like it because it's like communal but with a limit, so not herd mentally.
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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.
That definition comes from a false myth; a documentary made a bunch of lemmings fall to their deaths and purposefully misrepresented it iirc, fucked up.
It's time we reclaim our name and honour!
plus they are cute af
I feel like there is some analogy to be made over how other social media platform leadership are all too willing to ruin our communities and run us out of them for their short-sighted goals.
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.
It's the only sensible option.
There is also something called irony, which could be embraced and that would quell the bullying. Own it. It's funny, stop taking things so seriously. Also, who cares?
Expanding on this, this is how language builds. Terms are often ironic or late take on different meanings than intended. I for one like lemmings, and I think it's unlikely another term would stick even if we wanted it to.
Call me whatever you want, when I hear "Lemmy" I think Motorhead, so maybe we're "Kilmisters"
Lemmies!
I dig it!
We can all start building ladders, digging holes, blocking others to reverse directions or simply self destruct!
When I used reddit, I hardly ever felt the need to call anyone redditers? Do people that use Twitter call themselves twats? Cause they should. Damn the Faceboomers too.
Ah, I see. You never truly savored the Redditor experience - the Fedora, the bliss of basement living, the Cheetos-inspired physique. Without such rites of passage, how can you claim the title?
As for Twitter users being "Twats" or Facebook users "Faceboomers", that's an interesting proposition. But remember, le Redditors bear our stereotype with pride. The basement always has room for one more. ;)
/s <- do we still do this?
instead of fediverse perhaps it should be fedoraverse
Spoken like a true lemon
lemurs > lemmings
It reminds me of the 1991 videogame I played when I was a child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)?wprov=sfti1
I don't know, what are your thoughts? Should we care? How does everyone else feel about this?
I saw someone say we should go by lemmons
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
I'm new but I've always mentally gone straight to lemming from lemmy. also, I love all iterations of the game.
I prefer LEMmy UseR -> lemur
If we actually wanna support the essence of what we're engaging on, we shouldn't factionalize by user interface and should avoid names attached to Lemmy, Mastadon, or KBin. We should instead be Federates of the Fediverse.
I think many here like it. It's fun and us crashing a few Lemmy instances the past few days does resemble lemmings jumping off a cliff (even if that one is a myth) 😁
Oh oh.. Let's go... 😄
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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.
As far as I know it was a disney "documentary " that perpetuated the falsehood of lemmings committing mass suicide so it seems only fitting that we rehabilitate the name that was so besmirched by that filthy corporate behemoth.
Lemmings? Yup, I'm in.
I've been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.
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Between Lemmy and Kbin, there's already two choices of software platforms for Reddit-esque link aggregators that work together. In the future there may be more. I think the term should be inclusive.
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Fedditor is play on redditor, a widely used term for users of the privately owned Reddit. A fedditor is a user of a Fediverse alternative.
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Since ActivityPub is an underlying protocol that interfaces with the rest of the Fediverse, I think emphasizing the Fediverse aspect and the "reddit-esque" aspect is more important than the specific software platform.
People may use different terms for Lemmy vs Kbin vs future alternatives (or ones I just don't know about), but they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of. I think if any term becomes widespread, it should be an inclusive term that fall underneath a more general term such as Fedditor.
they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of.
I feel like the community at sh.itjust.works really knocked it out of the park here. Feel like we may not even bother, everyone else is just going to be fighting for second place now.
I feel like the community at sh.itjust.works really knocked it out of the park here.
What are you referring to here? /outoftheloop
We're sh.itheads? :)
It's better than anal explorers ala Lemmiwinks.
I vote for lemurs/lemurians
I don't see the relation with lemmy