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12 years ago. Wonder what Lemmy will look like in 12 years? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (19 children)

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+

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  • [+] 40 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago*

    Yeah, I've been running around the Fediverse for two years now and the name has yet to grow on me. Makes it slightly difficult to explain to people who are interested. The "iverse" part makes it sound like a metaverse type project which gives some people pause -because of the hype-flop cycle and, of course, all the crypto scams associated with that. Have to begin the pitch with "but it has nothing to do with [that], so don't worry." (Edit because autocorrect)

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They should've called it Google Circles. Google Plus just sounded like some kind of premium subscription to Google and not like a social network.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I really enjoyed Google+ specifically for the Circles feature. I'm pretty sure it was the age unrestricted global Hangouts chats that killed it.. Probably what this scene from Silicon Valley is about.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I don't care about the name much, but it's going to make searching for anything on here through a regular search engine cumbersome. Lemmy is just going to bring up results to the late motorhead singer

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    It's like how Reddit is I've read it, Lemmy is Let me tell you.. Think an excited person, "Lemmytellyousomething!!!"

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It'll change if it gets popular, not everything can have an ultra unique name

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm a huge motorhead fan. The name is a not insignificant part of why I chose this as a reddit alternative over the others

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I just think it ultimately sounds like a lousy c-grade 3rd party app. Then again, Mastodon isn't much better. At least Reddit is basically witty.

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