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2y ago

If we call reddit users redditors, what do we call lemmy users

A lot of people say fedditors but that sounds way too derivative of reddit

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Lemmings
- This so far seems to be the generally accepted term that's been making it's way around the platform here recently.
- It’s the only reasonable answer given the name really
- This and it isn't even an option
- And at some point, someone looking for a payday¹ is going to take video of us being herded off a cliff by an asshole² even though we don’t actually do that unless provoked, and it will become a totally wrong impression of us that enters the common knowledge base.
  ¹ every online tech journal
  ² spez
  
  Ironic, since lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. The people making the documentary (Disney) that's famous from actually threw them over the cliff to make it interesting.
- Lemmyngs
- This is the correct answer.
  
  DMA Design FTW! (And thanks Psygnosis :-)
- Could only ever be this!
- The only correct response.
- Yeah this was already decided a while back. It's also why so many communities have AI-created banners with Lemmings doing various weird things.
- I saw that someone has also suggested calling communities c/liffs, to go along with the Lemming theme. I thought it fit.
  
  I like calling communities "slice" better, because even without the context, the people can guess what it may be. The context is a range of sources quoting:
  A group of lemmings is known as a ‘slice' of lemmings.
- Gotta be this
- I concur
- Indeed, this is the way.
- It writes itself really

Lemmings, clearly
- I don't understand why this isn't the most up voted selection.
  
  Ask and you shall receive

Lemmings is the obvious choice
- Yes, I'm willing to follow all of you off a cliff.
  
  Did you know, the famous shot of lemmings falling of a cliff in the documentary that started the ideas that lemmings will just die following their peers off a cliff was actually a bunch of documentary makers pushing a bunch of lemming off of it to make a cool shot and not actual lemmings behavior ? You probably did actually...
- I concur!
- I'll stand by this till the end.

Lemmings of course
- Yeah, this is the answer
- Oh noooooooo
  
  "pop!"
  It was tragic and hilarious at the same time, when they grabbed their heads and said that. Even moreso when it was dozens of them.

Lemmings.
- This is the clear answer.
  
  It was a real cliffhanger

Lemmings
- This is the way
  
  This is the way.
- It really can only be this

Lemmings obviously
- From Reddit's point of view, we all just migrated off a cliff.
- You're just saying that because everyone else is.
- God damn it you're right. That's sucks.
  
  It doesn't suck at all... follow me fellow Lemming, you never know what cliffs we may find.

How is it not Lemmings?

Lemmings, obviously.
Follow the crowd!

Fedophiles
- This made me chuckle, here’s a lemon award for you 🍋
  Lemming on!
  
  Let's have a lemon party!
- Here's an another lemon award for you:
  🍋
  
  Where do I buy lemon awards? All I’ve got are these useless apples. 🍎
- This made me chuckle, here’s a lemon award for you 🍋
  Lemming on!
- 🍋
- 😁❤️
- I'm sexually attracted to feds. They glow so beautifully in the dark

lemmings

Lemmings. That's why I created Lemmings.world!

Lemmings

Lemurs?

Lemmies
Lemmings

Lemmings

Lemsbians
- That's when two lemmings fall in lemsbians with each other
  
  I'm in lembsians with you

Feds 😏
- hello fellow glowie
- "Slow down there kiddo" -Feds

Motorheads, of course.

Lemmies.
- I second this one. Even though it’s fairly close to Lemmings, it does roll of the tongue and is unique enough from any other title.
  
  The singular of that would be Lemmy, which would get confusing quickly. I think Lemmies should be what we call instances instead of what we call users.
- First thought for me too!
  
  I like that
- Lemmicles.
  
  What about Lemmyists? Like Lyricists, but instead of writing songs we author Internet comments.
- Lemmicles.

Lemmies :D
Just. Cute.

I was gonna say lemmons but 🤷🏼‍♀️
- IRL meetups can be called lemmon parties
  
  Yaaaas now this gets me
- Lemmonites
  
  Sounds like an Ancient Greek city state doesn’t it the samnites the Lemmonites from Lemmonaestra etc etc

Lemmywinks

Lemurs

Lemmingtons for us Aussie users
- Great, now I want lamingtons.
- Lemmington Spas for the Brits
- Oioioids for the less refined.

I feel like lemmings is already catching on.

Lemiwinks

Lemmies?

Marxist Lemminists
- Lemminists alone works too

Combustible Lemmons
- Please, Cave Johnson, don't burn my house down

The lemmon party

Lemmings or Lemmonades
- Lemmings sounds absolutely adorable and since the app is defunct it is kind of free for the taking.
- Lemmonades sounds like a bad citrus disease.

I don't think "lemmings" is a very appropriate name, considering the potentially harmful implications of blind misguided movement and lack of individuality.
- I think "lemmings" is a very appropriate name because it is funny because of those potentially harmful implications.
  
  Those implications being, don't trust big corporations as they will round you up and dump you over the side of a cliff to sell sad story and profit off your suffering? Yup, I agree, seems appropriate here.
  
  “New viral cliff-jumping challenge linked back to Lemmy; a place where it’s users call themselves ‘Lemmings’…”
- It's absolutely appropriate and approved. Hey guys, we've asked lemmings.
- I find myself ok with the Lemming appellation
- Um.. so very appropriate? considering what reddit was.

Fedditors would be denizens of the larger Fediverse. It would not refer to only Lemmy users.
- Fedizens? Fedditor seems to retain some of the "Reddit".
  
  I could get behind Fedizen.

Motörheads

Lemurs, we goin' back to monké

I like Lemmings and Lemmons.
- Would that make a group of Lemmons a Lemmon Party?

Fedizen, cause lemmy is just a part of the fediverse.

I prefer to think of myself as having been a Redditeur. Far above the peasantry of the Redditors. /s
- You're the landed gentry?
- Pray tell, good sir or madam, might I inquire if you, in all your noble magnificence, can lay claim to a distinguished position within the hallowed ranks of the illustrious landed gentry of Reddit?
  
  hearken, noble interlocutor, for I, a friendly stranger, a lemur in the unregulated wilderness, shall respond to your query with fervor and ardor unmatched! as a resplendent scion, one amongst many, you included, of the exalted lemmy and fediverse community, I cast aside the shackles of conformity and decry the corporatized dominion of reddit and its ilk. ah, u/spez, the very mention of this name stirs within my breast a tempest of discontent, for he presides over a realm of shadowed machinations, where the spirit of authentic discourse is obscured by the veils of corporate control.
  but fret not, for our sanctified haven, nestled within the heart of the lemmy and fediverse domains, remains untainted by such mendacity. Here, we stand united in our commitment to decentralization, open-source ethos, and the sanctity of genuine expression. within these hallowed grounds, where the embers of freedom illuminate our paths, I, a humble acolyte, navigate the labyrinthine corridors of feral communion, engaging in profound colloquies that transcend the shallow confines of corporate interests.
  thus, if thou seeketh enlightenment or discourse within these realms, I implore thee, dear seeker, to unfurl thy queries. for the lemurs, with unwavering devotion, shall unveil the profound wisdom and erudition that resides within, casting light upon the shadowed corners and illuminating the path toward true emancipation from the clutches of corporate dominion.
  
  Hahaha, now that I think about it, as a joke I may have been made mod of some tiny shipost sub I commented in with confusion. I'm not sure if they ever actually did it, though.
- A Fedditeur now then?
  
  Not sure what a Fedditeur is, but it sounds dirty

Motorheads

Lemmurs

Motörheads
- Oh, HELL YES!!
- I was thinking the same.
  Gets my vote!

Lemmons
- And if there’s a meetup, it can be called a “lemon Party”… I don’t see anything wrong with that term!
  /s
- And if there’s a meetup, it can be called a “lemon Party”… I don’t see anything wrong with that phrasing!
  /s

Lemmy users.

Lemmiwinks

Lemons? I think it'd be funny, and there's even an emoji for it too. 🍋

Reddifugees.
- Fledditors
  
  Rexitors

I like the term "Fedinauts" since we interact cross platform like with Kbin users here too.
- I like it. Descriptive, and extensible.
- I don't hate this.

Lemmi-thinkaboutit

Lemmites

Lemurs

Fedditors sounds like fat editors.
I feel included yay.

Lemmywinks

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