Fediverse users are femurs?
We’re lemmings.
We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.
I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.
I‘m the one with that rope. A Lemmnja.
I’m the diggy diggy hole lemming
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.
Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.
NO! I said months ago I hate this. I still hate this.
You’re better fall in line and jump off this cliff with the rest of us.
Your comment was so applicable to any of my comments that I assumed you were replying to the one where I said I wasn’t going to start wearing pants at work.
Less talking. More dropping trou.
So what’s your preferred alternative?
I think lemurs like the op said is better. However, I also think the ship has probably already sailed and lemmings is what it is.
Lemminators
I despise that term and refuse to use it
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We are mostly called “lemmings” here.
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
Lemmings strong together
Guys, come quick!!! I found the cliff!!!
I’m not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.
sets fire to your neighborhood
Oh no!
I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.
I think we should all be called “feds.”
I’m not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner…
Not Feds 🤮
Fediversians
Activity pub
… Activists?Fediverse
… Versus?Fedis
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.
Meow
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!
And people from Wisconsin are called Cheese Heads.
It’s all about the beans so how about bean… Wait I think that one’s already taken.
Get with the times, now it’s jeans.
No wait, it’s now… Nope, already changed, it’s back to beans again, carry on.
I think we’re beams now. I keep seeing them everywhere. beans and beams.
Lidiots
Nerds
I don’t want to be grouped together with any of you.
Which is why you’ve chosen to be a kbinite.
to be fair
That’s where I started too, much much better web interface than base lemmy. But then .social got flaky and I tried out Voyager and here we are.
Kbinite is close enough to kryptonite so they should be called kryptonians
I was thinking “carbonite” myself.
Lemurians.
Lemmywinks?
Poor mouse.
There’s never been any consensus that I’m aware of. All the suggestions are cringey.
We’re just users.
Lemmings was the consensus pretty much every time this question comes up
No it’s not. You personally might like it but if it were the consensus people would use it and this question wouldn’t be asked every week.
Lemmyors
Lemmyvores?
don’t you dare compare us with those R-words!
