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Showerthoughts

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Fediverse users are femurs?

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[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 month ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I‘m the one with that rope. A Lemmnja.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] alphacyberranger 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guys, come quick!!!! I found the cliff!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

I think we should all be called "feds."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Fediversians

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....

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[–] DudeImMacGyver 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Get with the times, now it's jeans.

No wait, it's now... Nope, already changed, it's back to beans again, carry on.

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

I think we're beams now. I keep seeing them everywhere. beans and beams.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Poor mouse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

We're just users.

[–] DudeImMacGyver 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmings was the consensus pretty much every time this question comes up

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[–] BlucifersVeinyAnus 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] BananaPeal 6 points 1 month ago

Lemmyvores?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Redditors but with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I found this humerus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are all the Ace of Spades.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] can 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemmies? Lemons? Lemmy Lemons? 🍋

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When life gives you lemons......uh.......make linux memes and federate?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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