Curious to know, I'd heard "lemming" used in a semi derogatory way, since "a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction" is the dictionary definition. It seems to be the first thing to come to mind as to what you'd call a Lemmy user.

This platform certainly is embodying a mass movement to get off of reddit, and I'm definitely all for it! But I can't help but feel this could be one of those baby names that sounded cute and catchy but could be bullied later into life. What are your thoughts?

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[–] AlexRogansBeta@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we actually wanna support the essence of what we're engaging on, we shouldn't factionalize by user interface and should avoid names attached to Lemmy, Mastadon, or KBin. We should instead be Federates of the Fediverse.

[–] Void_Reader@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then it'll be shortened to Feds and that seems wrong

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 2 points 1 year ago

we could just be fedizens until we take that back from the FBI or a different name emerges