Curious to know, I’d heard “lemming” used in a semi derogatory way, since “a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction” is the dictionary definition. It seems to be the first thing to come to mind as to what you’d call a Lemmy user.
This platform certainly is embodying a mass movement to get off of reddit, and I’m definitely all for it! But I can’t help but feel this could be one of those baby names that sounded cute and catchy but could be bullied later into life. What are your thoughts?
I like it tbh XD anything is better than “redditor”, I can’t get the image of the fat vaping neckbeard with a fedora out of my head
The feeling of the word depends on the feeling of the community, so as long as the community is nice we should be good.
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While I know that the origin of the stereotypes is false, the stereotype still remains. So I’m not fond of the term for that, but it’s not a super big deal. I might joke about it because it’s pretty fucking funny (c’mon… Redditors coming to Lemmy on a leap of faith? Like lemmings off a cliff is analogous as hell), but I mean… People who would use it to talk shit, would end up turning anything used to describe a group as a slur so there’s not really a point in caring too much.
There’s this saying ‘would you jump off a bridge if all your friends did?’.
Well my friends are lovely people, they’re smart and wise (some one thing more than the other). They’re great friends. So if I imagine myself in a situation where all of them are jumping off a bridge I think my best option, nothing else known, would be jumping too.
So call me a fucking lemming if you want, I was starting to hate that bridge long agoI’m new but I’ve always mentally gone straight to lemming from lemmy. also, I love all iterations of the game.
It’s the only sensible option.
I appreciate it as a self-aware jab at the nature of online communities in general, and it amuses me. Every human is a lemming in some way, shape or form, there’s just nothing new under the sun so-to-speak. But by being aware of this tendency we can control our own behavior more consciously and effectively.
Gotta be able to laugh at yourself though, which is a capability that not everybody possesses.
Sir, you are a Buddha.
I like self sorting systems. Let the easily offended become offended and go somewhere else. They do have the right to be offended, after all.
Which group of easily offended people is going to be the largest?
- Those who get offended and therefore leave,
- or those who get offended but stay, because their curiosity won’t let them go,
- or those who get offended and stay to troll and throw 💩 around and watch the world burn.
Tough to say. But everyone in category 3 would have done it anyway.
Just thinking about how at some point in the future the lemmyverse will be replaced over some dumb shit and the tremendous amount of absolutely trash memes about lemmings jumping off a cliff that follow fills me with joy.
The internet is a cycle and it’s fun to witness a new cycle now.
It does kind of lack the same embarrassment that comes from self identifying as a Redditor
Lemmies!
As far as I know it was a disney "documentary " that perpetuated the falsehood of lemmings committing mass suicide so it seems only fitting that we rehabilitate the name that was so besmirched by that filthy corporate behemoth.
Federators!
I don’t have any issues with Lemmings. But I prefer lemmers and lemmians.
Lemmy IS god.
Lemmings are cute and I don’t mind at all.
How about federales?
I think many here like it. It’s fun and us crashing a few Lemmy instances the past few days does resemble lemmings jumping off a cliff (even if that one is a myth) 😁
queue up the hamster dance next
