Open source people have a history of…questionable naming schemes (looking at you, GIMP). We should backronym Lemmy to something more normie. I’ll start:
My mum has been a single mum her whole life, and when I was a kid she couldn’t always get the most popular games but I believe she was told Lemmings would be very good. She got an entire box set, including a Christmas edition! At first I was of course distraught, until my brother installed it on his PC and I would constantly ask to play it. So many hours went into it, and it’s not the first time my mum had really surprised me with something I didn’t know I’d end up appreciating so much. I think I still have it somewhere…
Thank you, I often do. I sometimes show her the Pacman game she got me whilst abroad, thinking it was Pokémon Yellow, and reminding her that I actually really enjoyed it and wouldn’t have known about all the various collections of Pacman if she didn’t follow my very crude description of Pikachu (which thinking back, could have been describing Pacman as well lmao).
She’s going through chemo treatments, so it’s more important to remind her of these things. For me at least.
Weird. I always thought it was from the game. Throughout reading what you typed, I was expecting something unexpected. As it turns out… It was what I expected, unexpectedly.
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Lemmy from Motörhead is the only other Lemmy I ever knew. Therefore, it was clear to me, that the name our our new home is a homage to the god of rock & roll and whisky.
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It was originally called “Le Meme” to reflect its primary function as a reddit clone, before the devs decided to shorten it to “Lemmy”.
Source: I made it up. ☺️
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@MargotRobbie @Orionza so sexy. I prefer this version. 🤣
Open source people have a history of…questionable naming schemes (looking at you, GIMP). We should backronym Lemmy to something more normie. I’ll start:
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Yes, because no one wants to have problems with someone’s trademark, since that would foce them to change app name.
Easiest way to avoid this is using strange name.
I like this because it reminds me of Lemmings.
My mum has been a single mum her whole life, and when I was a kid she couldn’t always get the most popular games but I believe she was told Lemmings would be very good. She got an entire box set, including a Christmas edition! At first I was of course distraught, until my brother installed it on his PC and I would constantly ask to play it. So many hours went into it, and it’s not the first time my mum had really surprised me with something I didn’t know I’d end up appreciating so much. I think I still have it somewhere…
If you’re able to share that memory with her please do so. It’s very nice!
Thank you, I often do. I sometimes show her the Pacman game she got me whilst abroad, thinking it was Pokémon Yellow, and reminding her that I actually really enjoyed it and wouldn’t have known about all the various collections of Pacman if she didn’t follow my very crude description of Pikachu (which thinking back, could have been describing Pacman as well lmao).
She’s going through chemo treatments, so it’s more important to remind her of these things. For me at least.
Weird. I always thought it was from the game. Throughout reading what you typed, I was expecting something unexpected. As it turns out… It was what I expected, unexpectedly.
@Orionza It from the famous city of Lemmingrad.
I think it’s also a happy accident that Lemmy sounds like “let me”, so you get community names like Lemmy Shitpost, or Lemmy Be Wholesome.
Becky, lemmy smash!
That’s how I read it too.
Lemm ee c boobies perhaps?
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good bot
The origins are right on the pages that pertain to Lemmy.
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So what?
Mastodon was named after a metal band that was named after a furry prehistorical elephant. Fact. Yes, really. No, really. No, I’m not kidding you.
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It’s short for Leomard.
British comedian Leomard “Lemmy” Henry.
Lemmy tell you a story….
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Lemmy from Motörhead is the only other Lemmy I ever knew. Therefore, it was clear to me, that the name our our new home is a homage to the god of rock & roll and whisky.
it’s arbitrary and the developer probably didn’t expect Lemmy to grow that big lol
I just figued they called it lemmy so we’d all be called lemmings
I thought it was named after lemurs after the lemur-like behaviour people exhibit on socialmedia.
I’m just glad the name is not something related to r****t.
Nice to see my first association with the Name is actually pretty accurate: Lemmy Kilmister.
The origin of the name is actually told in Lemmy’s GitHub page, it’s not just the Motorhead singer and Lemmings:
So basically the name came from an amalgam of things the lead dev liked.
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The koopa is named after the lead singer from Motorhead IIRC
My favorite part is that Lemmy Koopa was also named after mister Kilmister.
Lemmy was basically God in the metal scene.
Thank you. I saw a comment claiming it was named after the butt gerbil from South Park. I am relieved to know that it is not.
Why are speculations voted higher than this accurate answer? Link to the Github page for everyone to check: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy
Yes i realy miss an option to sort comment by votes as default. I hope that gets implemented at some point.