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Fediverse users are femurs?

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 day ago

Lemming is the correct answer, but I'll also accept Lemmin' mostly because I'd love for there to be some kind of meet-up, like a Lemmin' Party or something.

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I found this humerus.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Redditors but with extra steps

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 215 points 2 days ago (14 children)
[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I‘m the one with that rope. A Lemmnja.

I’m the diggy diggy hole lemming

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Lemmings is just the best name for us. It's so anti-corporate, you can rest assured not a single PR team would ever greenlight it in the history of PR teams. We don't need a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want to have anything to do with whatever a PR team wants.

In case anyone was unsure, lemmings don't even jump off cliffs, that was literally just Disney staff throwing lemmings off cliffs like a bunch of psychopaths.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

We are legion

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.

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[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

accurate. BTW, i got a copy of red hat linux from the library back in '98 or so and tried to install it on my 386 but 8MB of RAM was too little by half. Windows 95 ran on it tho!

so obviously i use arch nowadays, but i've been feeling a little BSD-curious. it seems like linux might get overrun with normies soon and i need a backup plan

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] elvith@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Guys, come quick!!!! I found the cliff!!!!!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.

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[–] binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.

I think we should all be called "feds."

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Fediversians

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....

Activity pub
... Activists?

Fediverse
... Versus?

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy users, Lemmy is a drug that can make you feel good or worse

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

feel good and worse

More apt description for me since I like to browse Everything.

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

My condolences

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The fun thing about demonyms this is that there's no grammatical rule for them.

It's just kind of socially agreed upon.

Nobody from Boston would say they're bostonite. They would say a Bostonian.

However, there are many more miltons. In the world around there are miltonians and miltonites.

People from Liverpool are liverpudlians.

People from Venice are venetian.

People from St Kitts are called kitty cats.

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.

They do have a special name though - "the product"

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't want to be grouped together with any of you.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's all about the beans so how about bean... Wait I think that one's already taken.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 13 points 2 days ago

Get with the times, now it's jeans.

No wait, it's now... Nope, already changed, it's back to beans again, carry on.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TedJ70@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

I would also like to die on this hill.

Lemmings is dumb. Lamingtons is rad.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.

We're just users.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmings was the consensus pretty much every time this question comes up

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