Lemons
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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with the official client being called Jerboa I think we all agreed that the small rodent analogy was intended from the start
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I agree with everyone here on this, Lemmings is appropriate. Especially since most of the community likes it, I think choosing something that the community vibes with is important.
Given the rodent theming, lemmings is appropriate. It's also slightly self-deprecating, which is a plus when it comes to community monikers.
Most of the people migrating from Reddit wouldnβt have much of a problem with self-depreciation.
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More poetic themes via Wikipedia βLemmings also appear in Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 short story "The Possessed", where their suicidal urges are attributed to the lingering consciousness of an alien group mind, which had inhabited the species in the prehistoric past.β
The past mascot was an alien
As Lemmings was one of my favourite games growing up, that's also gets my vote.
lemming would be pretty ok for me too. I am to uncreative to come up with another name lol. maybe lemmys?
+1 for lemming. It just feels really appropriate, and who doesn't like lemmings? They're adorable!
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Hear me out: *points to username*
Thank you, thank you. I'll be beetlejuicing here all week. *bows to the audience*
I've always been opposed to this kind of branding. Users are users, posts are posts, getting heavy into branding is always a bad sign to me.
I totally get where you're coming from but I think humanity's tribal nature makes us want to identify with something on the platform we're on.. Some type of name that defines all of us.
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I loke lemmings, I think it's a good reminder about how the dangers of letting any platform influence you too much.
I saw someone suggest lemons lol
I tried transforming the word Lemmy in the same way as demonyms for countries ending in Y just to see how it'd shake out.
Anything calling to anyone? π
Germany -> Germans -> Lemmans
Para/Uruguay -> Para/Uruguayans -> Lemmyans
Muscovy -> Muscovites -> Lemmites
Hungary -> Hungarians -> Lemmians
Norway -> Norwegians -> Lemmegians?
Turkey -> Turks? -> Lemms?
Lemmites is the best one
Lemmites and Lemmegians are best
I like Lemms.
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Lemmons
Lemmings
I think Lemmings is great because it's not something any PR team would approve of. It feels completely unincorporated.
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I saw someone use "Lemmurs" the other day and I'm sticking with that pending a better idea.
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Why is lemmings deregatory, it kinda fits imo
Some old (wrong) thing about lemmings running off a cliff.
Turns out the nature photographers drove the lemmings off a cliff.
Lemurs. Hence the Jerboa app icon
Not a fan of lemmings, since everything we know about them in popular culture is incorrect - they don't commit mass suicide - and is suicide really the image we want for ourselves? @Lemminary has the right idea.
I didn't think that about lemmings
It's a myth popularized by Walt Disney in a documentary where they made the claim and dumped a bunch of lemmings off a cliff into the sea to prove they did just that.
Us few subscribers to c/Australia will unquestionably be known as 'Lemingtons' from here on out.
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Lemmings 100%
Asking the important questions! I won't deny this has already crossed my mind. I do think lemmings sounds like the best option.
lemonades
lemurs?
The Lemon Party. π
MotΓΆrheads?
lemmites like how the users of luddy were called luddites
I would like to cast a ballot for "lemmons"
If not lemmings, lemmons
I also agreed with lemmings on a previous post. Coming from Reddit, self deprecating is the least of my worries π€£
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