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Showerthoughts

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As we witness the recent mass exodus from Reddit to Lemmy - Whoever named this Platform after Lemmings, must have had a freaking good foresight. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] CascadianBeam 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought it was because Reddit is like “read it” and Lemmy is like “Lemmy show you this”. Lemmings is a great name though.

[–] DrQuint 25 points 1 year ago

I didn't really think much of it myself, but when I joined, for like two weeks, joining instances was a bit harder due to some being closed and others having sporadic downtime. So one very common joke was people saying "Lemmy In! LEMMY IN!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Adorable little critters.

[–] ultratiem 1 points 1 year ago

I like this take and will use it regardless of whether it’s “right” or not.