• AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world
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      I didn’t like it until I realized its users are called lemmings.

      Also, lemmy is just the software, you can start your own and call your website whatever you want and have it interface with whatever you want.

      I do hate the word “fediverse” though

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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@lemmy.world
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      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@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      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

    • Therevev@lemm.ee
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      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