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.
Why is it called Lemmy 🤔?
Submitted 2 months ago by Aurora_Glamour@ani.social to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Karl@programming.dev 3 days ago
What other fediverse projects are named after animals ?
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 1 month ago
Oooohhhh!! I thought Lemmy’s icon was a mouse, that’s why I was confused
UncleJosh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That was a tradition? It doesn’t seem like it’s stuck around.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 months ago
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 2 months ago
Thanks!
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why are you called Aurora?
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 2 months ago
Fair point
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?”.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The point is, why is anything named anything?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
she*
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Super Mario character
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well Lemmy tell you a story…
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Signed, practically all Lemmings
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.
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.
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!
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 months ago
Please stop. This is cringe and old. Not everyone is here for that.
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!!!
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 2 months ago
I agree