Perhaps this is a dark thought… but I’m wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to “We did it Reddit!” or “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” will be.
It seems like something cliche or corny always springs up, like it’s unavoidable.
Honestly, I'm sure that joke is going to get extremely old as time wears on, but right now I always chuckle. Creepy stories is c/lemmyscareyou now. Adorable.
Not exactly the same thing but… People are already referring to Lemmy users as “Lemmings” which, yeah it makes sense… But it also has some stereotypes associated with it that aren’t what I’d like to be associated with, you know?
I can already imagine it being used in a phrase with something about jumping off cliffs and being brainless followers and whatnot. Especially with this exodus situation. lol
I personally like Lemmonites for Lemmy, but I think I'm alone there. Fedditors is starting to catch on and is more inclusive of the fediverse as a whole but I kinda don't like fedditor because it defines us by what we left behind. It's probably the best choice we have out there right now though.
There actually was some talk about calling each community “c/liffs.” Likely won’t stick, but, i get where you’re coming from. I think Lemmings in this context feels harmless enough, for me atleast. Anything is better at this point than referring to yourself as a “Redditor”
Yeah, but mascots and names don't really need to make sense and golems are just mainstream enough for people to think of powerful monsters. I mean, mice are associated with uncleanliness and being pests. Golems at least has the migration factor. I think of it more like a personified force of nature brought into existence for a cause. Lemmings have no positive attributes, unless we go with the classic video game (and I don;t think anyone wants a completely commercial-related mascot.)
Plus with there being different types of golems, it's open to assigning users titles (eg- stone golem = obstinate, fire golem = angry ranter, wind golem = always has long posts, etc.)
The Lemmings suicide thing is actually a myth, made up for views by some documentary crew who forced Lemmings off a cliff. I looked the source up a while ago and that is what I found as information. I hope we can restore their reputation so I keep telling people.
Literally was given gold on Apollos goodbye post after I thanks Christian and said fuck u/Spez. I had to edit it and tell people to stop spending money on gold. It defeats the fucking purpose.
Many people had coins/points left over from back when they were giving them out for free. I gave my last free gold to people who suggested kbin as a matter of fact
I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.
Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.
See also:
"I'm not crying you're crying!"
"This!"
"Wow this really blew up! Thanks everyone! <insert cheesy/cringy speech about being the main character in their life for 5 seconds">"
Since Lemmy and KBIN don't have an equivalent to rewards, I doubt there'd be an equivalent to “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” unless someone makes a Fediverse equivalent to the Old Reddit Silver bot
Random thought related to gold, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of fediverse tipping system that allowed people to give tips that showed up as something gold-like or award-like. Could be neat, but validating the payment when multiple instances are involved could be challenging without getting instances involved with payment gateways and finance regulations. I'm sure it could be done with crypto but that would probably be offputting to most people.
One month into my home instance’s existence (lemmy.world) and we’ve already had our inaugural hack and a few technical growing pains that broke several mobile apps for days
I get the impression that the goal is more to have Lemmy fill the hole that Reddit has left rather than duplicating it in some way; Take the good and leave the bad.
The powermods just demonstrated they can only survive without their precious powertrip for 2 days TOPS, most of our mods are passionate pioneers but in the long term we might also have the powermod problem faced on pretty much every site except Wikipedia’s gigachads and RationalWiki’s democratically-elected mod team. But even then, simply defedding your instance from the ones they powertrip on should quarantine them, and it also helps that since we’re nonprofit they have no boots to lick.
I REALLY don’t want us to bully kids to the point of suicide for using Reddit.
And I dread the day that c/atheism becomes just another embarrassing circlejerk dedicated entirely to bashing believers and blaming all current problems on their overall existence.
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