Sorry if someone has already asked this. This is my first post on Lemmy. I mean, I guess you could ask the same question about Reddit but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be Read-It. But what does Lemmy mean? Is it a cute word for a small lemon?
I guess it’s a tradition to name fediverse projects after animals and the original creator was a big fan of the Lemmings games and Lemmy from Motorhead had just died.
Here’s a link with info on the origin story:
IDK but I can’t stop thinking of Lemmiwinks from South Park.
Like Spider-Man villains, all Fediverse services have to be named after animals. Probably.
Rey Mysterio, jr was part of the wrestling stable called the Filthy Animals.
Rey Mysterio is more likely named after the Spider-man villain than the reverse. Mysterio the Spider-man villain was created about a decade before the man who became Rey Mysterio was even born.
That one is a deep dive but it’s a nod to Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences. They’re all about the animals.
This gets asked a lot, but we need a definitive answer from the guy who started the project, damn it. He just won’t tell us other than some vague references to “Lemmy” things. I guess there’s this;
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.
Why’s it called Lemmy?
Lead singer from Motörhead. The old school video game. The Koopa from Super Mario. The furry rodents.
