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TIL "Lemmy" comes from, indeed, the game Lemmings, as well as Lemmy from motorhead. (feddit.nl)
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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.

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[–] animist@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God?"

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Trick question, Lemmy is god

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Oh man what a classic game, got to go find a freeware version of that and try it out again

[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I thought is was lemmy the lemur

[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

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