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Why is it called Lemmy 🤔?

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago⁊ by ⁨Aurora_Glamour@ani.social⁊ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁊

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

    Well Lemmy tell you a story…

    FUCK SPEZ!!!

    Signed, practically all Lemmings

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

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

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

      I agree

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  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨1⁊ ⁨month⁊ ago

      What other fediverse projects are named after animals ?

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    • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

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

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    • UncleJosh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

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

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    • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

      lemmy.ml/post/70319

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

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

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    • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

      Thanks!

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

    The animals and god.

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

    Why are you called Aurora?

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    • Aurora_Glamour@ani.social ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

      Fair point

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁊ ⁨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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

        The point is, why is anything named anything?

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

        she*

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁊ ⁨months⁊ ago

    Super Mario character

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  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁊ ⁨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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