Lemmy Kilmister, for whom these Fediverse iterations are named

Kind of a massive stretch:

“It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.”

Him dying recently to the naming is an incidental reasoning, not the main reason at all