My guess is that the namer wanted the connotation to be: LET ME.

How exciting!

But honestly — I try to get people to join and inevitably they say…”Why, so I can follow all the other stupid lemmings?”

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    10 hours ago

    The name Lemmy grew on me lol. I thought Reddit sounded dumb af once upon a time too. In fact I still cringe at the thought of being called a “redditor.”

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      A word for users of a website to self-identify as a group will rarely not be cringe. Like, come on, is this how you self-identify?

      Doesn’t work so well here as the content is platform neutral. We’re all just “users”, really.