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Origins of the Name "Lemmy"
(lemmy.zip)
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The origin of the name is actually told in Lemmy's GitHub page, it's not just the Motorhead singer and Lemmings:
So basically the name came from an amalgam of things the lead dev liked.
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
Yes i realy miss an option to sort comment by votes as default. I hope that gets implemented at some point.