What are your thoughts on being called Lemmings if this platform becomes a staple?

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.

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.

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!

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.

It reminds me of the 1991 videogame I played when I was a child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)?wprov=sfti1

lemurs > lemmings

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.

IDK, I'll probably wait until the majority makes a decision and go with it..... oh, wait

Personally, I think it’s on how you own it. You see a lot of people on right wearing deplorables as a sort of badge of honor. Same concept. People who would make fun of us for calling ourselves lemmings would make fun of us even if we called ourselves lions.

It's the only sensible option.

I’ll just follow the rest of you and not think about it.

While I know that the origin of the stereotypes is false, the stereotype still remains. So I'm not fond of the term for that, but it's not a super big deal. I might joke about it because it's pretty fucking funny (c'mon... Redditors coming to Lemmy on a leap of faith? Like lemmings off a cliff is analogous as hell), but I mean... People who would use it to talk shit, would end up turning anything used to describe a group as a slur so there's not really a point in caring too much.

I don't think it matters, if people have a problem with it they need to learn how to laugh at themselves. Redditors certainly behave like lemmings sometimes, and some self-deprecating humor over here calling ourselves lemmings is pretty funny

I'm new but I've always mentally gone straight to lemming from lemmy. also, I love all iterations of the game.

I dig it!

We can all start building ladders, digging holes, blocking others to reverse directions or simply self destruct!

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?

That’s definitely the first nickname that I thought of when I started using lemmy so I’m all in for it my fellow lemming

Call me whatever you want, when I hear "Lemmy" I think Motorhead, so maybe we're "Kilmisters"

Also people will think we’re stupid if we let a group of scientists throw us off a cliff. Which is fair.

Lemmy is only one component of the Fediverse. We are Citizens of the Federated Universe!

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.

Why tie your identity to it at all? There doesn't need to be a collective name for lemmy users.

Is an email user an emailer? Is a reader of RSS feeds a RSS'er? Are discord users discorders? Or signal users signallers?

(Note: Not actually sure if discord users call themselves something)

I saw someone say we should go by lemmons

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.

Lemmings are cute and I don't mind at all.

The thought of being called a lemming makes me want to run off a cliff.

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

@Redecco

I've been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Lemmings? Yup, I'm in.

Huffman told me to fall in line, so I became a lemming.

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) 😁

Federators!

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

Here are some alternatives:

• lemmyans
• lemmynauts
• lemmyzens

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lemchads

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.

Lemon

It's fine, though personally i'd rather just say lem or lems for simplicity if anything tbh

My vote is for Kilmisters

I vote for lemurs/lemurians

A repost from a few days ago seems appropriate: Lemmings go to war

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.

I don't have any issues with Lemmings. But I prefer lemmers and lemmians.

Lemmies!

How about federales?

Just call us nerds.

a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction

That's the joke, and one day our baconed narwhal.

trouser_lemming

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.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

I prefer LEMmy UseR -> lemur

I wouldn't mind being called that even if I'm mainly on Kbin.

Oh oh.. Let's go... 😄