What are users of this website called? Is it actually lemmings?

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  • @cyanarchy
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    1 year ago

    This is sh.itjust.works, which makes me a sh.ithead

    E: I stole this from somewhere in the wild and wish I had taken note of who came up with it

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    Personally I think “lemmings” is great because it feels slightly ironically funny and mildly self-deprecating but not in a bad way. Like, the stereotype of lemmings, even though it isn’t really true, is that they’re blind followers, which doesn’t at all fit the fediverse given it’s decentralized nature and lack of one singular direction. Meanwhile, calling some group of people lemmings feels slightly derogatory, but calling oneself something like that gives the feeling of not taking oneself too seriously.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      61 year ago

      And that we all actively left the site that shall not be named instead of falling in line.

    • DomilleOP
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      31 year ago

      I didn’t even think about the derogatory meaning of “lemmings”… I just think they are cute lol.

  • @thetokenlady
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    1 year ago

    I think the general Lemmy users are lemmings, and we are a lemming sub species…shithead lemmings

  • @Quills
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    21 year ago

    Yeah I’ve seen people calling others here lemmings, it’s a funny name but if you think about it, here is part of the fediverse and with that comes the thing that it isn’t just Lemmy, there are other platforms (like Kbin) involved, so i think that a more universal naming would probably be more fitting

  • @tusx
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    21 year ago

    I guess we all are