• @Dr_pepper_spray
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    5011 months ago

    I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it … as much as I hated the name Google+

      • @TrueStoryBob
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        Yeah, I’ve been running around the Fediverse for two years now and the name has yet to grow on me. Makes it slightly difficult to explain to people who are interested. The “iverse” part makes it sound like a metaverse type project which gives some people pause -because of the hype-flop cycle and, of course, all the crypto scams associated with that. Have to begin the pitch with “but it has nothing to do with [that], so don’t worry.” (Edit because autocorrect)

    • Flat Pluto Society
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      2811 months ago

      They should’ve called it Google Circles. Google Plus just sounded like some kind of premium subscription to Google and not like a social network.

    • Venutian Spring
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      1211 months ago

      I don’t care about the name much, but it’s going to make searching for anything on here through a regular search engine cumbersome. Lemmy is just going to bring up results to the late motorhead singer

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        It’s like how Reddit is I've read it, Lemmy is Let me tell you… Think an excited person, “Lemmytellyousomething!!!”

        • Venutian Spring
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          411 months ago

          Yeah, I know. If Lemmy get’s big enough it’s going to be the top searches just like Reddit was. Until that time though, it’s going to be a whole lot of power stache lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      -111 months ago

      I’m a huge motorhead fan. The name is a not insignificant part of why I chose this as a reddit alternative over the others

      • @Dr_pepper_spray
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        311 months ago

        I just think it ultimately sounds like a lousy c-grade 3rd party app. Then again, Mastodon isn’t much better. At least Reddit is basically witty.