Where does the name come from?
It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.
“Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God?”
Trick question, Lemmy is god
Oh man what a classic game, got to go find a freeware version of that and try it out again
Oh man, what a classic bang, gonna fire up Spotify and listen to it again
That original post is a good read. I can’t say I agree with all of @[email protected], political views, but I’d like to think Lemmy is more than that.
After all, people can live and respect each other in the same community even if they have different political ideologies, as long as the values relevant to being in the community are common, and I think most of us here share that: we don’t want to be at the mercy of big tech companies to decide how we communicate. Having a public forum is a matter of the common good.
Which is extremely frustrating when you’re new to Lemmy and trying to learn how it works, or how to do certain things. Most of the results are for Lemmy the musician.
Then it derives from the reason, Lemmy Kilmister was called that, too. He was constantly broke and asked everybody “can you lemmy a fiver?” I can relate.
So, seriously, can you? Here’s my PayPal: …
