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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should've called it Google Circles. Google Plus just sounded like some kind of premium subscription to Google and not like a social network.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really enjoyed Google+ specifically for the Circles feature. I'm pretty sure it was the age unrestricted global Hangouts chats that killed it.. Probably what this scene from Silicon Valley is about.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=hjtr64ZQUWA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't care about the name much, but it's going to make searching for anything on here through a regular search engine cumbersome. Lemmy is just going to bring up results to the late motorhead singer

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's like how Reddit is I've read it, Lemmy is Let me tell you.. Think an excited person, "Lemmytellyousomething!!!"

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

Oh I like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ope, Lemmy just scooch past ye there, tryna get some ranch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, I’m on board now with the name

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'll change if it gets popular, not everything can have an ultra unique name

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. If Lemmy get's big enough it's going to be the top searches just like Reddit was. Until that time though, it's going to be a whole lot of power stache lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not much discussion here to be of value showing up in search results yet anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I really like the name :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a huge motorhead fan. The name is a not insignificant part of why I chose this as a reddit alternative over the others

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just think it ultimately sounds like a lousy c-grade 3rd party app. Then again, Mastodon isn't much better. At least Reddit is basically witty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy tell you why I like the name...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Three whole syllables is a bold move for mastodon