In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals.
Why is it called Lemmy 🤔?
Submitted 2 days ago by Aurora_Glamour@ani.social to [deleted]
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JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 day ago
UncleJosh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was a tradition? It doesn’t seem like it’s stuck around.
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 1 day ago
Oooohhhh!! I thought Lemmy’s icon was a mouse, that’s why I was confused
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 day ago
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 1 day ago
Thanks!
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why are you called Aurora?
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 1 day ago
Fair point
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
OP isn’t asking “why do you like chocolate?”.
If OP were curious why his name is what it is, he could ask the person who came up with it. He could have reasons for it, or not, but that person would know.
In this case, he’s asking the community if they know the origin of the name for the Lemmy project. The answer could range from “It was completely random, just something that came up in my head” to “I thought the project reflected a trait in a particular animal, so felt the name would represent that”.
So it’s potentially an answerable question, unlike “why do you like chocolate?”.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The point is, why is anything named anything?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
she*
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Super Mario character
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well Lemmy tell you a story…
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Signed, practically all Lemmings
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
I never cared much about Reddit, but then again, I'm not using Lemmy either. So maybe you're right.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This confused me, because your name is just @cabbage. Which indicates that you’re on my instance. @cabbage@lemmy.world.
Instead, you’re @cabbage@piefed.social
But you show up as @cabbage.
I don’t understand life.
Today@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When you posted this, I was just telling my son about the blackout and showing him videos on it. So, yeah, maybe not related to why is called Lemmy, but fuck spez!
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 day ago
Please stop. This is cringe and old. Not everyone is here for that.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s nothing old about how shitty Reddit has become when nothing has changed. Run by a greedy CEO, shitty admins, shitty mods, full of ads and bots, and now getting data scraped for AI training.
To suggest this is old news is to suggest people should just forget about it and move on. Welp, nothing has changed, and if anything, Reddit has gradually been getting even worse.
Act like I signed up for my data to be scraped?
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Aurora_Glamour@ani.social 2 days ago
I agree