Per Lemmy's GitHub
Why's it called Lemmy?
- Lead singer from Motörhead.
- The old school video game.
- The Koopa from Super Mario.
- The furry rodents.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
20 points (95.5% liked)
Asklemmy
43781 readers
826 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
As a metal fan, both Lemmy and Mastodon give me a little chuckle every time I think of their names.
BRB, starting a new service named Dethklok.
Lemmy is God.
Yes.
Lemmy Koopa was actually named after Lemmy from Motörhead. In fact, most of the Koopalings were named after musicals.
Huh. I didn't know that. To be honest, I didn't know that there was a Koopa named Lemmy until I looked at their github either. I've never played Mario.
I don't know. Lemmy find an answer for you.
Lemmy know when you do
Lemmy drag Deez nuts across your face?
ayyyyyyy gottem
Lemmy take a screen cap of that and share it with your
This might not be the official answer, but it feels like the right answer.
Because servers are closed and people were yelling "Lemmy In!"
Lemmy tell you why...
Lemmy find you where I read it
...yes..
Once upon a time there was a Lemming called...
I lemmied on Lemmy
Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?
Somebody liked the Motörhead rock band, maybe (Lead vocalist's name was Lemmy)?
Until yesterday my girlfriend legit thought it was named after him.
It's called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.
...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
Why are you called sociablefish?
Maybe they need to go back to school.