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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 ago
Personally, I hate the idea of pet names for any large community.
This one is particularly awful, however. I plan on ignoring it, but if it really does catch on to where it isn’t ignorable it will have an impact on my use of the service.
I like it for two reasons. 1) I love that game and it gives me nostalgic memories. 2) It's ironically funny since a Lemming is the exact opposite of what we are just by being here.
I don't know, what are your thoughts? Should we care? How does everyone else feel about this?
Here are some alternatives:
- lemmyans
- lemmynauts
- lemmyzens
Lemmynites please
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.
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It's fine, though personally i'd rather just say lem or lems for simplicity if anything tbh
My vote is for Kilmisters
I don't have any issues with Lemmings. But I prefer lemmers and lemmians.
Lemmy IS god.
Federators!
I vote for lemurs/lemurians
I don't see the relation with lemmy
Am not the first to think this since there is a discontinued lemmy app called lemmur. Plus, lemurians feel less like it's a joke compared to lemmings.
Lemmies!
How about federales?
a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction
That's the joke, and one day our baconed narwhal.
Just call us nerds.
trouser_lemming
I wouldn't mind being called that even if I'm mainly on Kbin.
Much better to be able to laugh to ourselves and show awareness of the matter. I never liked when people used membership of a community as a badge of honor, 'redditor' included.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
Oh oh.. Let's go... 😄