this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And I'm still not comfortable calling my fellow Lemmy people "Lemmings."

up until this point in history, calling someone a lemming has kinda been an insult.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm cool with it. Because it gives me a chance to correct folk's false assumptions about lemmings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Im not a fan either. I have been a reddit user for several years before I came here but always avoided the lingo wherever possible.

Let’s leave it over there, with all the other painfully unfunny in-jokes and dead references

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, calling someone a redditor can also be perceived as insulting so maybe they can both serve a similar function.