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What do we call ourselves? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don't have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about "lemmings" or "redditors". We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These are mostly joke suggestions, but:

NaNs

nulls

voids

unhandled exceptions

... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism, or can be interpreted as adopting a self-referential moniker which mocking the systems anarchists critique.

... probably it is a bit of a reach, but a good number of people refer to black cats as 'voids' these days, and ... pretty decent history of angry black cats as symbols of anarchism.

You could also maybe l33tsp33k them up a bit?

Use 'z' instead of 's' to pluralize?