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Where did the Lemmy name originated from? How long was the development of Lemmy?
The name is explained in the docs. We worked in Lemmy fulltime for over three years now (and around one year before that in our free time).
https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy
The first commit was in Feb, 2019, and of course we're still going!