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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world KellysNokia @lemmy.world 4 days ago

If Reddit users are Redditors, are Lemmy users Lemurs?

Fediverse users are femurs?

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I thought we where fuckwitz...
We’re lemmings.
- We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.
  
  Lemmyngs
- I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.
- 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.
- Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.
- We are legion
- NO! I said months ago I hate this. I still hate this.
  
  You’re better fall in line and jump off this cliff with the rest of us.
  
  So what's your preferred alternative?
- I despise that term and refuse to use it
- And fediverse users are... femming
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.
We are mostly called "lemmings" here.

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
- I think I prefer Lemurians https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria
Lemmings strong together
- Guys, come quick!!!! I found the cliff!!!!!
  
  I'm not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.
  
  Oh no!
Nerds
- accurate. 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
I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.

I think we should all be called "feds."
- Not Feds 🤮
  
  Fediversians
- I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....
- Activity pub
  ... Activists?
  
  Fediverse
  ... Versus?
- Fedis
Lidiots
I found this humerus.
Redditors but with extra steps
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.
- Meow
- Another 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!
- And people from Wisconsin are called Cheese Heads.
It's all about the beans so how about bean... Wait I think that one's already taken.
- Get with the times, now it's jeans.
  
  No wait, it's now... Nope, already changed, it's back to beans again, carry on.
- I think we're beams now. I keep seeing them everywhere. beans and beams.
I don't want to be grouped together with any of you.
- Which 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.
  
  Kbinite is close enough to kryptonite so they should be called kryptonians
Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.
- They do have a special name though - "the product"
Lemurians.
There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.

We're just users.
- Lemmings was the consensus pretty much every time this question comes up
  
  No 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.
Lemmywinks?
- Poor mouse.
Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.
- I would also like to die on this hill.
  
  Lemmings is dumb. Lamingtons is rad.
Lemmy users, Lemmy is a drug that can make you feel good or worse
- feel good and worse
  
  More apt description for me since I like to browse Everything.
  
  My condolences
don’t you dare compare us with those R-words!
Lemmyors
- Lemmyvores?
- SEYMOUR!!!
We are all the Ace of Spades.
- We are the roadcrew.
We are lemmys.
- Lemmies? Lemons? Lemmy Lemons? 🍋
  
  When life gives you lemons......uh.......make linux memes and federate?
  
  Let's make some lemmynade.
- I prefer lemmys to lemmings, but I think we got out voted.
  
  No no. I'm with you.
- Better than lemmings. I refuse to use lemmings
  
  Now now. Be a good little lemming and follow the crowd.
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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