this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I suggest Lemmiwinks.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I am also partial to "lemmings"

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I fully embrace the lemmings thing lol. Definitely an afterthought, but someone remarked about how redditors always think they're especially unique freethinkers, and call everyone else "mindless drones", when they go along 100% with US foreign policy.

We might as well embrace lemmings here as an ironic joke (especially because lemmings don't actually walk off cliffs, that's anti-lemming propaganda).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

anti-lemming propaganda

Those damn meerkats, spreading fake news

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We are the fellow Lemmings of the Lemmy cult

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

especially because lemmings don't actually walk off cliffs, that's anti-lemming propaganda

Me, personally, would only do that if I were pushed by a Disney producer. (true story)

[–] TempleSquare 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope lemmings sticks. It's cute. It pokes fun at ourselves. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My fave. Self-deprecating and fits the name well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As a kid of the 90s who grew up playing a wonderful video game of the same name. I fully endorse Lemmings =)

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

Simple, straight to the point and somewhat self-deprecating. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Anything fediverse related has my vote. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy, after all. Another thread about this had fedittor, fedinauts, fedis, fedizens, threaditor and more. Personally, I'm partial to fedizen.

EDIT: Fedditor is also pretty good. Says where we came from and where we are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah Fedditor is really good like a triple pun, fed up, reddit, and federated

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Personally, I’m partial to fedizen.

me, too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fedditors has my upvote

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think fedinaut is a particularly good-sounding general term, but I am going to insist to personally called a fedinaut by all three people that will ever have a reason to call me so.

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

I want to be called a fedinaught then, just to shake things up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

fedizen and related terms are funny in portuguese as "feder" means "to smell bad" in Brazilian. Can't wait to use it with my colleagues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] ruud 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When life gives you lemons, you make Lemmy? 🤔

[–] ruud 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and all these replies make a lemontree..

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

And what do we do with that lemontree?

[–] zephyr 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have to go with lemmurs :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Motörheads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I’d lean into the whole Lemmy thing and call them roadies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or we could call each other... Friend.

Comrade.

By name?

What's the need for the special secret handshake? I really think that's one of the silliest things of reddit culture that would be great to just leave as we switch over to here.

Let's not gatekeep but instead meet each other in friendship and non-toxcicity.

If we have to have a special name though, @[email protected] with Lemmings has my vote.

@[email protected] also good with fedizen. I actually think that's really even better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmings

The media will use it to ridicule us.

Fedizen

I like the idea of it. I'll probablyy shorten it to "hey fez" as a way of referring to both a singular person and a group.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The media will use it to ridicule us.

Oh no!

[–] Monkeyhog -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why in the living fuck should anyone care about "ridicule" what kind of weak-ass cowardly bullshit is this? Fuck the media and fuck you for being so fucking sensitive.

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

They control the narrative to who we are to the outside world. Likening ourselves to mindless Lemmings, does no one any favours. It just takes one incident to kill a movement. Remember the dog-walking fiasco?

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

Lemmymap calls it lemmies. I quite like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmiwinks should be the mascot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People capable of thinking

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