Lemmies? Lemmings?

  • abraxas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    49·
    2 years ago

    Lemmings, I think. The self-deprecating-self-monikers seem to be most successful. IMO

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
    292·
    2 years ago

    All of the more fediverse-focused ones (fedditors, fedinauts, feddies, fedizens, etc) are definitely better. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy: we have users from Mastodon, Kbin and more seeing and replying to our posts. Let’s choose a name that reflects that :)

    Also, just to prove a point, if you’re here from anywhere not Lemmy, say hello!

    • Joe Cool@lemmy.mlEnglish
      111·
      2 years ago

      I am old. I liked Netizens and Netiquette.
      I guess I will take a break and start a flamewar on Usenet. Now where is my robe and wizard hat?

    • ClammyMantis488@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Sorry to sound like a noob, but I still don’t understand how people from other places can respond. How does that work?

      • Anthony@mastodon.au
        9·
        2 years ago

        All good, same boat but from what I can tell it’s just a different approach to how most people have grown accustomed to the web.

        You can technically follow communities and users from Lemmy on Mastodon, though the two platforms have different UIs. I was recommended to register for two different instances as they let you interact with each one to the fullest/intended way. However you can still communicate between the two which is the fediverses’ biggest strength imo.

        E.g. I found this comment via lemmy. I copied the link and pasted it into my mastodon search bar. Once found, I can comment it through my Mastodon instance. The difference is that I cannot do unique lemmy interactions such as make lemmy-posts or downvote because those aren’t shared functions on ActivityHub between Lemmy and Mastodon.

        So, in terms of interaction, use a lemmy instance (though try to register for a less populated one that fits you’re identity to distribute the traffic/server load). Registering may take a bit since it’s run by actual people.

        In terms of communication, you can use either instance. The key is using links and the search bar. I cannot overstate how powerful the search function is in the fediverse, if you have the right link, you can find any post in the fediverse.

          • Anthony@mastodon.au
            4·
            2 years ago

            No problem! I’m still learning as well but it’s very cool to be able to interact with different instances. It’s like commenting on a reddit post from my twitter account

      • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Do you mean at the technical level or UI level?

        At the UI level, just have a look at https://kbin.social and you’ll see a lot of very familiar posts. Also their posts show up here, just like any normal post.

        Mastodon is a bit trickier. If you put hashtags in your post text, I think it shows up like a “toot” for users following it? Sorry, not a Mastodon user, don’t really know how it works.

        At a technical level, Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol. It’s how Lemmy servers talk to eachother, it’s how Mastodon servers talk to eachother, and it’s how a hell of a lot more services talk. Best analogy I’ve heard is ActivityPub is like the email protocol for social media platforms.

  • Adda@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    When this was asked 2 years ago, the community agreed on Lemmings, but I also rather like the second most suggested name, Lemmynauts.

    • Ohbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I remember watching a documentary-style YouTube video exposing it, it was crazy and sad. The producers of the original documentary concocted an infuriating cocktail of disinformation and genocide.

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlEnglish
        121·
        2 years ago

        Yep,

        But the biggest reason the myth endures? Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. The images—shocking at the time for what they seemed to show about the cruelty of nature and shocking now for what they actually show about the cruelty of humans—convinced several generations of moviegoers that these little rodents do, in fact, possess a bizarre instinct to destroy themselves.

        https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide

        Humans are horrible to non-human animals :(

  • Warped@kbin.social
    181·
    2 years ago

    Well, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, as has been pointed out. So maybe we are all Feddies? I am using Kbin.social, so maybe I’m just a Bin? Then again, as boring as it is, maybe we are just users? Or even more shocking, maybe we are humans? Nah, surely not? I will stick to calling myself a twat.

  • 0xCAFe@feddit.deEnglish
    131·
    2 years ago

    I like a more Fediverse-oriented term. My favorite so far is “Fedinaut”.

  • yak@feddit.itEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Also, what’s the term for Lemmy’s “subreddit”?

    …sublemmy?

  • Ada@kbin.social
    101·
    2 years ago

    @beto It might be a good idea to not do that thing that happened with Mastodon, where everyone thinks the Mastodon is the Fediverse. There is more to the #threadiverse than just lemmy!

    • Beto@lemmy.studioOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      Great point! Sorry, I’m new to Lemmy (but not to the Fediverse) and I see you’re using kbin. It’s easy to forget that people are not all using the same software — I’m still amazed that I can post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon, and I assume the same is true for kbin.

      I had this question because i was explaining Lemmy to my partner, and her favorite subreddit is BestOfRedditorUpdates. So I wondered what would be the name of the equivalent community in Lemmy. 😊

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      OoO, I like #threadiverse, was never fond of how the whole fediverse is mashed together.