Lemmies? Lemmings?
Hold my beer! LEMMINGS
All of the more fediverse-focused ones (fedditors, fedinauts, feddies, fedizens, etc) are definitely better. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy: we have users from Mastodon, Kbin and more seeing and replying to our posts. Let’s choose a name that reflects that :)
Also, just to prove a point, if you’re here from anywhere not Lemmy, say hello!
Communists.
Prolemmytariat!
If only
And just in case anyone did not know. Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. … And they apparently also do not fall from the sky, or … explode … WTF! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming
I remember watching a documentary-style YouTube video exposing it, it was crazy and sad. The producers of the original documentary concocted an infuriating cocktail of disinformation and genocide.
Yep,
But the biggest reason the myth endures? Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. The images—shocking at the time for what they seemed to show about the cruelty of nature and shocking now for what they actually show about the cruelty of humans—convinced several generations of moviegoers that these little rodents do, in fact, possess a bizarre instinct to destroy themselves.
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide
Humans are horrible to non-human animals :(
LEMMURS