Reddit is called as such because “I read it on Reddit”
I don’t know. Lemmy find an answer for you.
Lemmy know when you do
Lemmy drag Deez nuts across your face?
ayyyyyyy gottem
Lemmy take a screen cap of that and share it with your
Gottem nuts in ur face!
This might not be the official answer, but it feels like the right answer.
Per Lemmy’s GitHub
Why’s it called Lemmy?
- Lead singer from Motörhead.
- The old school video game.
- The Koopa from Super Mario.
- The furry rodents.
As a metal fan, both Lemmy and Mastodon give me a little chuckle every time I think of their names.
Lemmy is God.
BRB, starting a new service named Dethklok.
Lemmy Koopa was actually named after Lemmy from Motörhead. In fact, most of the Koopalings were named after musicals.
Huh. I didn’t know that. To be honest, I didn’t know that there was a Koopa named Lemmy until I looked at their github either. I’ve never played Mario.
Yes.
Lemmy tell you why…
Lemmy find you where I read it
Lemmy get a link
Lemmy google that for you
Lemmy send you that info
…yes…
Once upon a time there was a Lemming called…
Because servers are closed and people were yelling “Lemmy In!”
Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?
I believe kbin is a little bit of a pun on a polish gun name.
knewstuff
I lemmied on Lemmy
I think it is somewhere in here :D https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
Unfortunately, its not:(
I just assumed since their icon looks like a mouse, that it’s named after the small rodent called a lemming.
But then why do they have that logo?
I thought maybe their logo was not really a mouse, but actually a lemming, which is what is in the picture in my comment, but I honestly don’t know.
its also a lemming
Definitely best teory
Somebody liked the Motörhead rock band, maybe (Lead vocalist’s name was Lemmy)?
Until yesterday my girlfriend legit thought it was named after him.
It’s called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.
The thing that’s nice about being a “lemming” is that in reality they are very feisty critters and don’t do the weird mass running off of cliffs things that they are “known” for.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iqaA3eiHFRM
…so it’s nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
It’ll probably become an instance one day… Or does ‘winks’ have to be a TLD for that to be possible?
The related names makes it really hard to be a useful name to search.
@astigma while these are all the „official“ reasons, they are also really boring
Anyone got a link to a quick primer on how lemmy/kbin are related? I thought they were different sites?, but it seems they are not?
Kbin and Lemmy and Mastadon (and others) can all federate with each other, so posts and comments are all shared. They all speak the same underlying protocol – ActivityPub.
https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/58451/I-am-new-to-the-Fediverse-I-vaguely-understand-how
They ARE different sites, but they’re federated. Basically, sites on the Fediverse (the nickname for the group of sites which share this functionality) can communicate. So, for example, Mastadon, Lemmy and kbin are all on the Fediverse, so they can communicate (when sites on the Fediverse are able to communicate, people say they are “federated”).
Let me give you an example!
Say you’re on Mastadon and you post something. That post will be visible to users on Lemmy and kbin, and people from Lemmy and kbin can comment and interact with it (since they all share the same protocol). Lemmy / kbin users will not have the 400 character limit Mastadon has, but they will still be able to interact.
Same thing if you make a post on Lemmy - on the whole, the Fediverse will be able to see your posts. Same with your comment here (Lemmy users can see it. For an example of a comment from another site, check out Stux’s comment below - they are from Mastadon)
They are all distinct apps with distinct features, they just can communicate with each other. Imagine it like Twitter and Facebook could see each others’ posts.
Now, some instances of Lemmy and kbin (basically, some servers of them) are blocked from federation with others on the Fediverse (aka, recently Beehaw - a Lemmy instance - blocked another Lemmy instance) but that is on a per-instance basis.
I was asking myself this just a few minutes before I saw your comment.
Thank you for this great explanation.
If I understood correctly, we don’t need to have an account on each of these applications (kbin, Lemmy, mastodon) to be able to interact with their content.
However, they each have their own set of features and their own way to interact with the content. So Lemmy acts a bit like Reddit with up/down votes and discussion threads with comment depth, while Mastodon acts more like Twitter. I wonder how these content properties are set and managed by the different apps.
It made me look up Lemmings, and apparently they get a bad rep for being suicidal which is a myth coming from when some humans forced a bunch of them off a cliff for a documentary.
I feel like there is some metaphor with Reddit in there, but I can‘t quite grasp it.
Why are you called sociablefish?
Maybe they need to go back to school.
