We’re lemmings.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.
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I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.
I‘m the one with that rope. A Lemmnja.
I’m the diggy diggy hole lemming
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Lemmings is just the best name for us. It's so anti-corporate, you can rest assured not a single PR team would ever greenlight it in the history of PR teams. We don't need a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want to have anything to do with whatever a PR team wants.
In case anyone was unsure, lemmings don't even jump off cliffs, that was literally just Disney staff throwing lemmings off cliffs like a bunch of psychopaths.
Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.
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We are mostly called "lemmings" here.
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
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I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.
I think we should all be called "feds."
Not Feds 🤮
Fediversians
I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....
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Lemming is the correct answer, but I'll also accept Lemmin' mostly because I'd love for there to be some kind of meet-up, like a Lemmin' Party or something.
Lidiots
The fun thing about demonyms this is that there's no grammatical rule for them.
It's just kind of socially agreed upon.
Nobody from Boston would say they're bostonite. They would say a Bostonian.
However, there are many more miltons. In the world around there are miltonians and miltonites.
People from Liverpool are liverpudlians.
People from Venice are venetian.
People from St Kitts are called kitty cats.
Meow
Another good one is Glasgow -> Glaswegians. Here's a pretty interesting article about a few odd demonyms:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demonyms-linguistics-nicknames
The demonym “Glaswegian” comes, linguists think, as an analogy of the Irish city of Galway. “Glasgow” and “Galway” are two fairly similar looking words. And Galway has long had its own analogy with another similar-looking word: Norway. Galway’s demonym is “Galwegian,” as an analogy of “Norwegian.” So “Glaswegian” is a sort of a photocopy-of-a-photocopy of Norwegian. Not something anyone could ever guess!
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It's all about the beans so how about bean... Wait I think that one's already taken.
Get with the times, now it's jeans.
No wait, it's now... Nope, already changed, it's back to beans again, carry on.
I think we're beams now. I keep seeing them everywhere. beans and beams.
There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.
We're just users.
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Lemmywinks?
Poor mouse.
I found this humerus.
Redditors but with extra steps
Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.
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don’t you dare compare us with those R-words!
We are lemmys.
Lemmies? Lemons? Lemmy Lemons? 🍋
When life gives you lemons......uh.......make linux memes and federate?
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