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submitted 1 year ago by Orionza@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Hello!

I'm a Reddit transplant. I get the name Reddit (I read it) or at least that's how I figured it got its name.

Lemmy though? At first it reminded me of lemon 🍋 I looked up "lemmy" and found an origin of the name, which means "Devoted to God" and is a diminutive of Lemuel.

But where the service's name originates is partially from the name of Ian Frasier Kilmister, aka Lemmy, from the band Motorhead.

The origin of his name: "The name originated from his often said sentence “can you lem’me five?” oder “lemme a fiver?”." (Source)

Then finally the Wikipedia reveals full information that the creator partially took the name from Lemmy the Motorhead band member, and a game called Lemmings, which he had been playing at the time.

This is in case anyone has wondered why this interesting service has such an odd name!

#lemmy #lemmyorigins

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[-] simple@lemmy.world 239 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The origin of the name is actually told in Lemmy's GitHub page, it's not just the Motorhead singer and Lemmings:

Why's it called Lemmy?

So basically the name came from an amalgam of things the lead dev liked.

[-] Dnn@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Why are speculations voted higher than this accurate answer? Link to the Github page for everyone to check: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy

[-] Patariki@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Yes i realy miss an option to sort comment by votes as default. I hope that gets implemented at some point.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 17 points 1 year ago
[-] Beliriel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy was basically God in the metal scene.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

The koopa is named after the lead singer from Motorhead IIRC

[-] stuffandthings@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I saw a comment claiming it was named after the butt gerbil from South Park. I am relieved to know that it is not.

[-] Orionza@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I was wondering how from Koopa. I only knew of Bowser. I've never seen Lemmy Koopa. Thanks for that.

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