Well Lemmy tell you a story...
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Signed, practically all Lemmings
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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I never cared much about Reddit, but then again, I'm not using Lemmy either. So maybe you're right.
This confused me, because your name is just @cabbage. Which indicates that you're on my instance. @[email protected].
Instead, you're @[email protected]
But you show up as @cabbage.
I don't understand life.
I think, on your end, my user name probably shows as just "cabbage", not "@cabbage". Which indicates it's a user name (not exclusive), not a handle (exclusive).
Similarly, OP shows up to me as "Aurora (she/her)" rather than "aurora_glamour", which is her handle. Piefed still displays the instance though.
It might not be ideal, as it makes imposters possible. Then again, that has always been the case by using visually identical Unicode characters, so it's not entirely a new problem.
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!
I agree
Please stop. This is cringe and old. Not everyone is here for that.
There's nothing old about how shitty Reddit has become when nothing has changed since Reddit went public. 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, people haven't forgotten, and if anything, Reddit has gradually been getting even worse.
Act like I signed up for my data to be scraped?
FUCK SPEZ!!!
It is old that itβs time to move on.
I would argue both of you.
To @[email protected] I say, fuck spez. We're all here for that.
To @over_clox I would argue it's not old news but only because it's not news at all. That would be like saying the sky is blue is old news. Reddit being shitty is just something we all know, we have always known, and will always know. So, it's not new news, it's not old news. It's just life. Things people know. 1+1=2, and fuck Spez.
And I could say Elon and Trump are old news. Sure, fuckit, let's just let all the oligarchs get rich, take control, and steal all your data at the same time.
Or like NOT!!!
Don't forget, eat the rich, and fuck the oligarchs.
No, Iβm here for self hosting. Not the cringe Reddit hate fest
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.
That was a tradition? It doesn't seem like it's stuck around.
Oooohhhh!! I thought Lemmyβs icon was a mouse, thatβs why I was confused
The animals and god.
Why are you called Aurora?
Fair point
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?".
In fact, direct from the github page:
Why Is It Called Lemmy?
Lead singer from MotΓΆrhead.
The old school video game.
The Koopa from Super Mario.
The furry rodents.
The point is, why is anything named anything?
she*
Super Mario character
(Satire) because without a overseer/god we will all just walk off a cliff unless this god/overseer makes one of stand and stop us from doing it.