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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The term is Lemmings, btw.
Because :

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."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)#History

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No need to apologize, you're new; I don't expect you to know all the Lemmy localized terminology yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Holy shit it is based on the guitarists… that makes it so much better!