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Personally, I think it’s on how you own it. You see a lot of people on right wearing deplorables as a sort of badge of honor. Same concept. People who would make fun of us for calling ourselves lemmings would make fun of us even if we called ourselves lions.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
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I think many here like it. It's fun and us crashing a few Lemmy instances the past few days does resemble lemmings jumping off a cliff (even if that one is a myth) 😁
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I like it tbh XD anything is better than "redditor", I can't get the image of the fat vaping neckbeard with a fedora out of my head
That’s definitely the first nickname that I thought of when I started using lemmy so I’m all in for it my fellow lemming
I don't have any issues with Lemmings. But I prefer lemmers and lemmians.
Lemmy IS god.
It's fine, though personally i'd rather just say lem or lems for simplicity if anything tbh
a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction
That's the joke, and one day our baconed narwhal.
trouser_lemming
Just call us nerds.
I'm new but I've always mentally gone straight to lemming from lemmy. also, I love all iterations of the game.
I prefer LEMmy UseR -> lemur
Oh oh.. Let's go... 😄
Much better to be able to laugh to ourselves and show awareness of the matter. I never liked when people used membership of a community as a badge of honor, 'redditor' included.
I've been thinking about this for a little while now and I think Fedditor is the best choice.
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Between Lemmy and Kbin, there's already two choices of software platforms for Reddit-esque link aggregators that work together. In the future there may be more. I think the term should be inclusive.
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Fedditor is play on redditor, a widely used term for users of the privately owned Reddit. A fedditor is a user of a Fediverse alternative.
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Since ActivityPub is an underlying protocol that interfaces with the rest of the Fediverse, I think emphasizing the Fediverse aspect and the "reddit-esque" aspect is more important than the specific software platform.
People may use different terms for Lemmy vs Kbin vs future alternatives (or ones I just don't know about), but they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of. I think if any term becomes widespread, it should be an inclusive term that fall underneath a more general term such as Fedditor.
I think my initial instincts were Lemmings for Lemmy, Kbinners for Kbin, and yeah when it comes to the Fediverse as a whole there's a lot of room to play with the Fed in it. I'm having a hard time adopting Fedditor since it makes me think of Feta cheese + redditor, or like a f-ed up redditor haha. But I totally get your logic, universal sort of nicknames make sense across the different apps.
Speaking of which I have no idea what a Mastodon user would be called, I guess Twitter you'd just say a "Twitter user" so the same would go for it.
they may also use different terms for the instance they use or for the magazine/group that they are a part of.
I feel like the community at sh.itjust.works really knocked it out of the park here. Feel like we may not even bother, everyone else is just going to be fighting for second place now.
I feel like the community at sh.itjust.works really knocked it out of the park here.
What are you referring to here? /outoftheloop
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Personally, I hate the idea of pet names for any large community.
This one is particularly awful, however. I plan on ignoring it, but if it really does catch on to where it isn’t ignorable it will have an impact on my use of the service.