Fediverse users are femurs?

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[–] 220 points 2 years ago (19 children)
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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.

    I think we should all be called "feds."

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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!

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's all about the beans so how about bean... Wait I think that one's already taken.

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

    I don't want to be grouped together with any of you.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's never been any consensus that I'm aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.

    We're just users.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Redditors but with extra steps

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I found this humerus.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    don’t you dare compare us with those R-words!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We are all the Ace of Spades.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Lemmies? Lemons? Lemmy Lemons? 🍋

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    An interesting comment from when this was asked a year ago.

    Funniest one imo is Lemmegians (as in Norwegians). Not a very practical name though.

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