Why do we call ourselves lemmings when lemmons is such a better name?

The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 17 points –

I'm a lemmon you're a lemmon we're all lemmons.

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But then what does /c/ mean?

If we're lemmings, then these are /c/liffs

That’s a myth. Well. The suicide part. It was started because the normal lemming run wasn’t “dramatic” enough, and in any case, Lemmings don’t really run on cue, so Disney caught a bunch of lemmings and threw them over the cliff using a turntable for a white Wilderness (Like you know those spinning fertilizer or salt spreaders? It was like that. But with lemmings.)

Normally, lemmings make short hops to get down safely.

(Though for the record that was a really fun video game.)

Just don't ask me to join the lemon party. Not falling for that one again

I would say since there isn’t a singular instance we can see these posts from, instead of being Lemmings/Kbinners/whatever, we call ourselves “Federales” due to the federated nature of the servers.

As long as we don't start making The Federation and Star Trek jokes, I'm for it

Some grey federales say, they could a had him any day

They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose

yoo van zandt, nice
But yeah agree, federales is already a word and an ill-fitting one.

We call ourselves lemmings? That's new information to me, though I guess it would make sense. Lemons is better though.

Because lemmings are cute. Lemons are just something you squeeze the juice out of to make lemonade or just lemon water to clean your liver.

When I have to pick between a cute furry rodent or a sour fruit... I know what I'd pick.

When life throws you a lemon, you hurl it back as fast as you can and cuddle a lemming.

Somebody suggested Lemmur on another post. I thought that was a good one to go with

I knew a lawyer-lady who was, technically, a “Miss Lemmon”.

She really hated my shitty Hercule Perot accent.

Can’t really blame her on that. Fortunately I only cracked the joke once.

since we are more than lemmy users lets just call ourselfs the feds

You're clearly operating in some kind of made up world. Lemmings is amazing.

Imo, Lemmons make about as much sense as callling Kbin users Kbabs.

Unpopular opinion, but having a name for someone who uses Lemmy is pretty cringe. under what context could you possibly use it and not sound like an idiot? At a party are you asking someone if they are a lemming/lemmon? They're gonna look at you like wtf are you talking about.

It has big "the narwhal bacons at midnight" vibes

It helps with posts a bit. Being able to say "fellow lemmings..." or "as a lemming..." I wouldn't use it in real life though.

I agree with this, most social medias don't have these kinds of names for general people, sure people who make Youtube videos are Youtubers, but people who watch youtube videos are not Youtubites or something. We can just be Lemmy users, or Kbin users

Redditor is a thing though, and most people came from reddit. However, thinking about it, Youtuber and Tiktoker are reserved for the creators, not the users. As for the rest...

Facebooker

Whatsapper

Instagrammer

Yeah I'm fine with fediverse user.

Lemming (verb): the act of doing lemmy Lemm-on (noun): having erected lemmy. So only instance owners can be called lemmons. The correct term for the rest of us is: Lemmer (noun): someone who does lemmy