Lemmies? Lemmings?

  • honk@feddit.deEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Lemmings is terrible. It stands for mindless creatures that run in to their death one after another. I know that’s not what actual Lemmings do but it’s still associated with it lmao

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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
      0·
      1 year 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
      0·
      1 year 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
        0·
        1 year 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
            1·
            1 year 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

  • yak@feddit.itEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

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

    …sublemmy?

    • Ohbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year 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
        3·
        1 year 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
    0·
    1 year 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.

  • manned_meatball@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I actually asked GPT the other day and it replied Lemmings.

    I think we should keep changing it so Reddit can’t predict our movements. Like lemmings.