Lemmings has been a popular option thrown out too.

B-but lemmings...

In 10 years only old people will even care what Reddit was. I think it's better to define ourselves entirely within the context of Lemmy, rather than in reference to events at Digg/Reddit/whatever.

I think I would prefer lemmings

I'm not going to complain about people talking about Reddit in the short term, since the implosion of that site was a fairly recent (and ongoing) thing that most of us experienced (I imagine there are one or two Lemmy users that just picked it as their first link aggregator/discussion site, but realistically most of use came from Reddit) so naturally people are going to want to talk about it. I'd rather not make the Reddit exodus part of our central identity.

Lemming is fine. Sure, we spend most of our time just walking from left to right, but any one of use could be the one to build the next staircase, bash through the next wall, dig the next tunnel, etc. that will let the rest progress to the next stage.

And then of course there are the blockers who get blown up when their usefulness has run its course. Not sure how they fit into the metaphor.

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I think Lemmings has stuck so far.

Doesn't make sense for all the people who weren't part of the exodus though.

you're already calling us lemmy users, if you want you can shorten it to lusers.

When God gives you lemons, you find a new god.

something something Cave Johnson

Just call me daddy

We should be called Lemmy users because that’s what we are

Can we leave the le epic 420 bacon wholesome 100 Keanu posting in the past?

Everything returns to crab anyways. 🦀

No.

I don't want our whole identity to just be anti-Reddit. We should be called whatever feels most natural to say, rather than some less-fitting word with an unintuitive meaning we'd have to explain all the time. Yes, we were mostly all brought here by a common ostracization from Reddit, but we've got plenty of other content to provide to this site than just that shared sentiment. Plus, if this site is going to be successful, it'll need to grow a lot more, so it won't have this strong of feelings toward the site pretty soon.

Everywhere Reddit goes, it takes the cringe with it, it seems.

Everyone in the Fediverse should be labeled as a Fedophile.

Beans, beanies, lemmings, lemons, they are all ok. Bit who needs a label. I'm a lemmy user. Sure I came here from reddit but I don't want this to become reddit.

I'll be fine with either as long as the reddit exodus is called 'The Lemmoning'.

"Look, if life pushes you down, you gotta PUSH BACK! If you're dealt a bunch of lemons, you gotta take those lemons and stuff 'em down somebody's THROAT until they see YELLOW!!!"

-Frank Reynolds

I prefer Motörheads.

Beanie babies will be how they refer to the initial waves of users on Lemmy in the future

LemmyNades

And then I found out a lemming isn't just an old game but also an animal.

Im a fan of Meisters. After Lemmy Killmeister, the original Lemmy

Reddit told me to fall in line, so I became a lemming.

Lemmy Party

Beaners?

The funny thing about that saying is that lemons aren't a naturally occurring plant species and humans engineered them into existence. So when life doesn't give you lemonade, you make lemons.

B e a n s

I'm a kbinaut. What do i get?

Beanie babies