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Is lemmy's name holding it back?
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this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
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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?"
Ive never met any person named "Lemmy", nor seen it in any kind of movie. And the first time I heard about Lemmy the musicion was when I searched for Lemmy the software. For me it mostly sounds similar to cute little lemmings.
This is how I can tell you aren't GenX lol. Ace of Spades by Motörhead was huge in the 80s