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«A person who follows the will of others, especially in a mass movement, and heads straight into a situation or circumstance that is dangerous, stupid, or destructive.»

So i guess we are in the midst of a lemmingrun right now!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly don't think this platform specific language needs to stick around. I really think a lot of that originated as marketing and has always felt somewhat unnatural to me. Particularly because the threadiverse/fediverse is made up of many interconnecting platforms it's pretty clear that these terms will cause more friction than anything else.

This is also why I prefer lemmy's communities to kbin's magazines. Communities feels more like a universal description while magazines feels like platform specific language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is it, imo. Especially because mastodon and kbin federate as well, trying to make an identity out of “lemmy” doesn’t really work.