Why is it called Lemmy 🤔?

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well Lemmy tell you a story…

  FUCK SPEZ!!!

  Signed, practically all Lemmings

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never cared much about Reddit, but then again, I'm not using Lemmy either. So maybe you're right.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This confused me, because your name is just @cabbage. Which indicates that you’re on my instance. @cabbage@lemmy.world.

      Instead, you’re @cabbage@piefed.social

      But you show up as @cabbage.

      I don’t understand life.

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  • Today@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you posted this, I was just telling my son about the blackout and showing him videos on it. So, yeah, maybe not related to why is called Lemmy, but fuck spez!

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please stop. This is cringe and old. Not everyone is here for that.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s nothing old about how shitty Reddit has become when nothing has changed. Run by a greedy CEO, shitty admins, shitty mods, full of ads and bots, and now getting data scraped for AI training.

      To suggest this is old news is to suggest people should just forget about it and move on. Welp, nothing has changed, and if anything, Reddit has gradually been getting even worse.

      Act like I signed up for my data to be scraped?

      FUCK SPEZ!!!

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  • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree

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• JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals.

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  • Karl@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What other fediverse projects are named after animals ?

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  • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oooohhhh!! I thought Lemmy’s icon was a mouse, that’s why I was confused

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  • UncleJosh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was a tradition? It doesn’t seem like it’s stuck around.

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  • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lemmy.ml/post/70319

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#whys…

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  • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The animals and god.

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• actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are you called Aurora?

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  • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair point

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP isn’t asking “why do you like chocolate?”.

    If OP were curious why his name is what it is, he could ask the person who came up with it. He could have reasons for it, or not, but that person would know.

    In this case, he’s asking the community if they know the origin of the name for the Lemmy project. The answer could range from “It was completely random, just something that came up in my head” to “I thought the project reflected a trait in a particular animal, so felt the name would represent that”.

    So it’s potentially an answerable question, unlike “why do you like chocolate?”.

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    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The point is, why is anything named anything?

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      she*

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Super Mario character

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• thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  (Satire) because without a overseer/god we will all just walk off a cliff unless this god/overseer makes one of stand and stop us from doing it.

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