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Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
(lemm.ee)
I don't know. Lemmy find an answer for you.
Lemmy know when you do
Lemmy drag Deez nuts across your face?
ayyyyyyy gottem
Lemmy take a screen cap of that and share it with your
This might not be the official answer, but it feels like the right answer.
Per Lemmy's GitHub
Why's it called Lemmy?
- Lead singer from Motörhead.
- The old school video game.
- The Koopa from Super Mario.
- The furry rodents.
As a metal fan, both Lemmy and Mastodon give me a little chuckle every time I think of their names.
Lemmy is God.
BRB, starting a new service named Dethklok.
Lemmy Koopa was actually named after Lemmy from Motörhead. In fact, most of the Koopalings were named after musicals.
Huh. I didn't know that. To be honest, I didn't know that there was a Koopa named Lemmy until I looked at their github either. I've never played Mario.
Yes.
Because servers are closed and people were yelling "Lemmy In!"
Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?
I think it is somewhere in here :D https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
Unfortunately, its not:(
Lemmy tell you why...
Lemmy find you where I read it
...yes..
Once upon a time there was a Lemming called...
Somebody liked the Motörhead rock band, maybe (Lead vocalist's name was Lemmy)?
I lemmied on Lemmy
The related names makes it really hard to be a useful name to search.
...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
Anyone got a link to a quick primer on how lemmy/kbin are related? I thought they were different sites?, but it seems they are not?
Kbin and Lemmy and Mastadon (and others) can all federate with each other, so posts and comments are all shared. They all speak the same underlying protocol -- ActivityPub.
https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/58451/I-am-new-to-the-Fediverse-I-vaguely-understand-how
It's called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.
Why are you called sociablefish?
Maybe they need to go back to school.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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