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?

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
    92·
    2 年前

    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.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 年前

        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.

        • netvor@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 年前

          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.
    • Hank@kbin.social
      1·
      2 年前

      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.

  • clay830ee@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 年前

    The lemming Wikipedia entry states lemmings seek out new habitats whenever population density gets too large. Kinda fitting to the reddit migration. Also loosely related to federations in terms of multiple habitats.

    I like it because it’s like communal but with a limit, so not herd mentally.

  • Stinkywinks@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 年前

    When I used reddit, I hardly ever felt the need to call anyone redditers? Do people that use Twitter call themselves twats? Cause they should. Damn the Faceboomers too.

  • UdeRecife@geddit.social
    1·
    2 年前

    I bet that somewhere, at any given time, I’m being called something. It’s a simple byproduct of anyone falling into the universalization trap.

  • delirium@kbin.social
    1·
    2 年前

    I’m new but I’ve always mentally gone straight to lemming from lemmy. also, I love all iterations of the game.

  • Confuzzeled@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 年前

    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.

  • AlexRogansBeta@kbin.social
    1·
    2 年前

    If we actually wanna support the essence of what we’re engaging on, we shouldn’t factionalize by user interface and should avoid names attached to Lemmy, Mastadon, or KBin. We should instead be Federates of the Fediverse.