Lemmings
This post is 2 years old, but I just wanted to point out how funny it is to call lemmy users lemmings.
Given the existence of kbin and potentially others, we shouldn’t be named something specific to lemmy.
We are obviously all feds
Lemmings of course.
I really like this one even if it does come with the implication that we are marching to our doom.
Its extra funny because redditors will definitely have a superiority complex about it. Look at those lemmings, all unthinkingly upvoting each other, unlike me, a profound and insightful redditor.
Riffing off of another comment, I think it’s ok to have terms specific to each platform, and then a term for all platforms.
Platform specific:
- Lemming
- Kbiner
- Mastadoner
Overall:
- Fediverser
I mean, for Mastodon it’s gotta be “Mastodonians”
Kbingers
Feds (as in “Everyone here is secretly a cop”) or Fedizens
Mastodonians, Kbingers, and Fedizens are all superb. I’m not a fan of “feds” because it has another pretty common usage. I feel like whatever term is chosen should unambiguously evoke the fediverse.
The “fed” nickname was a bit facetious for exactly that reason. I just think it’d be funny for everyone to start calling eachother narcs. The internet is already full of that kind of fedjacketing, so why not embrace it?
