Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
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Per Lemmy's GitHub
Why's it called Lemmy?
- Lead singer from Motörhead.
- The old school video game.
- The Koopa from Super Mario.
- The furry rodents.
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As a metal fan, both Lemmy and Mastodon give me a little chuckle every time I think of their names.
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BRB, starting a new service named Dethklok.
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Lemmy is God.
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Lemmy Koopa was actually named after Lemmy from Motörhead. In fact, most of the Koopalings were named after musicals.
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Huh. I didn't know that. To be honest, I didn't know that there was a Koopa named Lemmy until I looked at their github either. I've never played Mario.
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Yes.
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Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?
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Because servers are closed and people were yelling "Lemmy In!"
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Lemmy tell you why...
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Lemmy find you where I read it
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...yes..
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Once upon a time there was a Lemming called...
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It's called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.
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I think it is somewhere in here :D https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
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I lemmied on Lemmy
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Why are you called sociablefish?
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Maybe they need to go back to school.
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Anyone got a link to a quick primer on how lemmy/kbin are related? I thought they were different sites?, but it seems they are not?
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Kbin and Lemmy and Mastadon (and others) can all federate with each other, so posts and comments are all shared. They all speak the same underlying protocol -- ActivityPub.
https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/58451/I-am-new-to-the-Fediverse-I-vaguely-understand-how
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