If Reddit users are Redditors, are Lemmy users Lemurs?
Fediverse users are femurs?
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.
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.
Your comment was so applicable to any of my comments that I assumed you were replying to the one where I said I wasn't going to start wearing pants at work.
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I think lemurs like the op said is better. However, I also think the ship has probably already sailed and lemmings is what it is.
We are mostly called "lemmings" here.
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
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
I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.
I think we should all be called "feds."
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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Another good one is Glasgow -> Glaswegians. Here's a pretty interesting article about a few odd demonyms:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demonyms-linguistics-nicknames
The demonym “Glaswegian” comes, linguists think, as an analogy of the Irish city of Galway. “Glasgow” and “Galway” are two fairly similar looking words. And Galway has long had its own analogy with another similar-looking word: Norway. Galway’s demonym is “Galwegian,” as an analogy of “Norwegian.” So “Glaswegian” is a sort of a photocopy-of-a-photocopy of Norwegian. Not something anyone could ever guess!
Which is why you've chosen to be a kbinite.
::: spoiler to be fair That's where I started too, much much better web interface than base lemmy. But then .social got flaky and I tried out Voyager and here we are. :::
There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.
We're just users.
No it's not. You personally might like it but if it were the consensus people would use it and this question wouldn't be asked every week.