I fully embrace the lemmings thing lol. Definitely an afterthought, but someone remarked about how redditors always think they're especially unique freethinkers, and call everyone else "mindless drones", when they go along 100% with US foreign policy.

We might as well embrace lemmings here as an ironic joke (especially because lemmings don't actually walk off cliffs, that's anti-lemming propaganda).

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doctorzeromd 10 points 3 years ago

anti-lemming propaganda

Those damn meerkats, spreading fake news

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Mcballs1234 7 points 3 years ago

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usernotfound 2 points 3 years ago

especially because lemmings don't actually walk off cliffs, that's anti-lemming propaganda

Me, personally, would only do that if I were pushed by a Disney producer. (true story)

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TempleSquare 4 points 3 years ago

I hope lemmings sticks. It's cute. It pokes fun at ourselves. It's great.

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lucien 2 points 3 years ago

My fave. Self-deprecating and fits the name well.

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quizno50 2 points 3 years ago

As a kid of the 90s who grew up playing a wonderful video game of the same name. I fully endorse Lemmings =)

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westernwind 1 point 3 years ago

Simple, straight to the point and somewhat self-deprecating. I love it.

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Barbarian 31 points 3 years ago

Anything fediverse related has my vote. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy, after all. Another thread about this had fedittor, fedinauts, fedis, fedizens, threaditor and more. Personally, I'm partial to fedizen.

EDIT: Fedditor is also pretty good. Says where we came from and where we are.

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Pk_thunder 16 points 3 years ago

Yeah Fedditor is really good like a triple pun, fed up, reddit, and federated

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BrooklynMan 13 points 3 years ago

Personally, I’m partial to fedizen.

me, too

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communist 8 points 3 years ago

Fedditors has my upvote

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AlbigensianGhoul 6 points 3 years ago

fedizen and related terms are funny in portuguese as "feder" means "to smell bad" in Brazilian. Can't wait to use it with my colleagues.

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preussischblau 6 points 3 years ago

I don't think fedinaut is a particularly good-sounding general term, but I am going to insist to personally called a fedinaut by all three people that will ever have a reason to call me so.

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kommanditbolag 3 points 3 years ago

I want to be called a fedinaught then, just to shake things up.

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confusedwiseman 3 points 3 years ago

Fez?

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ruud 18 points 3 years ago

Lemons

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SuitedUpDev 6 points 3 years ago

When life gives you lemons, you make Lemmy? 🤔

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ruud 5 points 3 years ago

Yes and all these replies make a lemontree..

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SuitedUpDev 1 point 3 years ago

And what do we do with that lemontree?

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zephyr 1 point 3 years ago

Lemmynade

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Paradigm_Shift 15 points 3 years ago

Lemurs

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alehc 13 points 3 years ago

I have to go with lemmurs :)

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Davidvanb 8 points 3 years ago

Motörheads

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Westwind 8 points 3 years ago

I’d lean into the whole Lemmy thing and call them roadies.

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TrashcanMarxist 4 points 3 years ago

Or we could call each other... Friend.

Comrade.

By name?

What's the need for the special secret handshake? I really think that's one of the silliest things of reddit culture that would be great to just leave as we switch over to here.

Let's not gatekeep but instead meet each other in friendship and non-toxcicity.

If we have to have a special name though, @Pk_thunder@lemmy.ml with Lemmings has my vote.

@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml also good with fedizen. I actually think that's really even better.

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tetris11 7 points 3 years ago

Lemmings

The media will use it to ridicule us.

Fedizen

I like the idea of it. I'll probablyy shorten it to "hey fez" as a way of referring to both a singular person and a group.

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interolivary 8 points 3 years ago

The media will use it to ridicule us.

Oh no!

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Monkeyhog -1 points 3 years ago

Why in the living fuck should anyone care about "ridicule" what kind of weak-ass cowardly bullshit is this? Fuck the media and fuck you for being so fucking sensitive.

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tetris11 1 point 3 years ago

They control the narrative to who we are to the outside world. Likening ourselves to mindless Lemmings, does no one any favours. It just takes one incident to kill a movement. Remember the dog-walking fiasco?

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Mir 3 points 3 years ago

Lemmiwinks should be the mascot

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Illecors 3 points 3 years ago

Lemmymap calls it lemmies. I quite like that.

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artaxadepressedhorse 3 points 3 years ago

lemmyngs