We’re lemmings.
219 0 ReplyWe solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.
69 0 ReplyLemmyngs
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57 0 ReplyI’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.
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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.
22 0 ReplyLemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.
11 0 ReplyNO! I said months ago I hate this. I still hate this.
7 4 ReplyYou’re better fall in line and jump off this cliff with the rest of us.
34 0 ReplySo what's your preferred alternative?
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We are legion
2 0 ReplyI despise that term and refuse to use it
3 2 ReplyAnd fediverse users are... femming
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We are mostly called "lemmings" here.
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
75 1 ReplyI think I prefer Lemurians https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria
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Lemmings strong together
45 0 ReplyGuys, come quick!!!! I found the cliff!!!!!
14 0 ReplyI'm not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.
13 0 ReplyOh no!
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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."
30 0 ReplyNot Feds 🤮
10 0 ReplyFediversians
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I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....
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... Activists?Fediverse
... Versus?4 1 ReplyFedis
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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.
23 0 ReplyNerds
23 0 Replyaccurate. BTW, i got a copy of red hat linux from the library back in '98 or so and tried to install it on my 386 but 8MB of RAM was too little by half. Windows 95 ran on it tho!
so obviously i use arch nowadays, but i've been feeling a little BSD-curious. it seems like linux might get overrun with normies soon and i need a backup plan
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Lidiots
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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.
17 0 ReplyMeow
7 0 ReplyAnother 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!
4 0 ReplyAnd people from Wisconsin are called Cheese Heads.
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It's all about the beans so how about bean... Wait I think that one's already taken.
15 1 ReplyGet with the times, now it's jeans.
No wait, it's now... Nope, already changed, it's back to beans again, carry on.
13 0 ReplyI think we're beams now. I keep seeing them everywhere. beans and beams.
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I don't want to be grouped together with any of you.
12 0 ReplyWhich is why you've chosen to be a kbinite.
to be fair
That's where I started too, much much better web interface than base lemmy. But then .social got flaky and I tried out Voyager and here we are.
3 0 ReplyKbinite is close enough to kryptonite so they should be called kryptonians
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Lemurians.
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There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.
We're just users.
9 1 ReplyLemmings was the consensus pretty much every time this question comes up
4 0 ReplyNo it's not. You personally might like it but if it were the consensus people would use it and this question wouldn't be asked every week.
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Lemmywinks?
8 0 ReplyPoor mouse.
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I found this humerus.
7 0 ReplyLemmyors
7 0 ReplyLemmyvores?
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Redditors but with extra steps
7 0 Replydon’t you dare compare us with those R-words!
6 0 ReplyWe are all the Ace of Spades.
6 0 ReplyWe are the roadcrew.
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We are lemmys.
7 1 ReplyLemmies? Lemons? Lemmy Lemons? 🍋
7 0 ReplyWhen life gives you lemons......uh.......make linux memes and federate?
13 1 ReplyLet's make some lemmynade.
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I prefer lemmys to lemmings, but I think we got out voted.
4 1 ReplyNo no. I'm with you.
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Better than lemmings. I refuse to use lemmings
1 0 ReplyNow now. Be a good little lemming and follow the crowd.
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Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.
6 0 ReplyThey do have a special name though - "the product"
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Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.
7 1 ReplyI would also like to die on this hill.
Lemmings is dumb. Lamingtons is rad.
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An interesting comment from when this was asked a year ago.
Funniest one imo is Lemmegians (as in Norwegians). Not a very practical name though.
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2 0 Replyfeel good and worse
More apt description for me since I like to browse
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I thought we where fuckwitz...
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