Reddit never had to compete with a musician in search results.
I think it’s more the network effect. There aren’t many users here. Like, I know the handles of all the usual posters on the Canada community.
The description as a ‘link aggregator’ on the fediverse page is holding it back.
Yeah for sure, what is a link agrigater?
Something ornery cause of all them teeth
Eh, names may sound stupid at first, but after saying it a million times it’ll start to sound normal. “Google” sounded stupid and silly when they just first started, but now it sounds formal and makes you think of dystopia and dread.
It’s less about how it sounds and more SEO
Based on Twitter’s success, I don’t think names matter much. If it were named something like CockAndBallTorture, sure, but Lemmy is fine.
To be fair, the food butternut squash is doing fine even though it contains the phrase “nut squash”
Perhaps. First name that came to me was remmy but the real nane is remy from the movie
I have to admit, the name did directly lead to me taking longer to adopt it.
Dead musicians aside, it’s not a cool name. It’s not a cute-in-a-quirky-way name, and most egregiously, it’s an actual name. For a person.
I think that the fediverse is held back by its name, but since I don’t have a solution, I usually never mention it. I try not to observe problems unless I have some solution, no matter how weak or terrible.
Also I am from the American South and I have met people named Lemmy in my life. (I’m older and they were older than me but still.) The one that sticks out in my memory had no teeth from obvious meth use, skin more leathered by cigarette smoke and alcohol than the sun, and tended to wear a leather vest with no shirt.
If you’re imagining someone that was not cool, you would be correct.
So again, definitely not helping. Made me take a couple extra months after hearing about it before even researching it, because “oh, ew, it’s called Lemmy?”
We could retcon it as named after the koopaling.
As much as I love Motorhead, it’s not a great name.
I have long contended there is no good band name. All are terrible.
Counterpoint: Ninja Sex Party.
I think the political culture is holding it back more than the name. People poke their heads in and see an environment that is far more left than they’re used to so they head back to Reddit. It can be a shock to see all the moe/loli and communist stuff when they aren’t used to it.
Good.
Not as much as Loops probably.
Searching for any information regarding Loops is great way to show off the importance of SEO
Yeah but Lemmy is dead. Also a lost oppurtunity for the metal community to not just go by Kilmister. could flipped it to be Mr. Kill
You put some respect on Lemmy Kilmisters name, sir.
What’s holding it back is not having a button to filter out all the US drama. Eternity had it, but that app isn’t working anymore.
Eternity doesn’t work? I’m literally typing from it now…
You can filter it in the apps.
I’ve just looked at Jerboa, Voyager and Raccoon and none of those have content filtering.
Voyager definitely has filtering.
I confess that it is always odd to see a musician, now deceased for a decade, when searching for this platform. Mind you, that is an ongoing tribute to their legacy, which is how it came about.
In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. “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.”
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)#History
Pretty weak reasons for picking the name tbh
Why did you pick you username?
divine vision hbu
Rather arbitrarily for mine haha
It took me three hours to decide upon mine, this was back when i needed one for the xbox 360. I literally sat there on the set up screen, and thought. You should see me struggle with character gens.
Way back in 1997 or so, I was not sure what to use, so I just chose “Foxtrot” from the phonetic alphabet because it sounded a little neat, and it has my favorite animal in it. It was not such an issue because you could still get that name everywhere at the time of course. Since then, I have mainly used variations of that, but at some point branched out into some others such as the one I use here.
It’s always kind of funny to me though, when I go through some old backup and see one of my forum signatures with my original name on it.
For me i went with WraithGear because i personally feel that i am not here, or real, that i am just piloting my corpse around. It crossed with my thoughts on gaming due to making an xbox account and all, and i have a framed art cell of metal gear acid on my desk, and it all kinda clicked. Its gear as in metal ‘gear’ more so then a cog.
when I say ‘fediverse’ people think I’m saying ‘fetiverse’ and sometimes they ask if it’s like open source fetlife. 🫠
In my native language, fediverse translates to “fédivers” which sounds like “faits divers” the “incidents” or “'news briefs” section of a journal.
On peut faire un site “Faits divers sur le fédivers”
I’ve seen people ask why the Fetaverse has nothing to do with cheese
Whenever I see’fediverse’ I still think it has something to do with Roger Federer.
Better than people assuming it’s a joke about it being full of feds, which I’ve seen before.
I have people asking if it’s a site for fans of crumbly cheese.
TBH the kink community has been needing a replacement for fetlife for a while
Oh my gosh, how nothing changed when all those people were getting murdered through the site? So scary!
just tell them “yes!”. they will figure it out :-)
some would prefer the limited growth.
i picked moist because who the fuck would want to market that
Greatest and best name ever.
Are you a “Dead like me” fan? Its the code word you set up to let your family know your not dead yet.
I love that show. I just started rewatching it, after rewatching Coupling. Giving me all the nostalgia.
nooope first ive heard of it! interesting
Its a world where the clean up of souls is differed to designated souls who for one reason or another can’t pass on. These souls are given a new body and are assigned to a cell to replace the one who reaped them. They are told a location, a time, and a name. And have to find the person about to die and pull the soul out before they are killed, else the soul brings the trama of death over with them. In the protagonists case she is put in the “freak accident death” group. Which reap people who are indirectly killed by demons mostly. It’s forbidden to reach out to your family for obvious reasons, but due to her mother HATING the word “moist” and considering it a sex slur, she leaves behind a message saying just that and the mother instantly catches on.
i will check it out, thanks!
freakin canada
Well, there is that one guy…
Charles Boyle?
Von Lipwig?
For some reason I thought of Critical. The YouTuber. Charlie? penguinz? Or whatever the fuck he calls himself these days. Then I remembered he doesn’t sing…
