Where does the name come from?
It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. 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.
“Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God?”
Trick question, Lemmy is god
I thought is was lemmy the lemur
Oh man what a classic game, got to go find a freeware version of that and try it out again
Oh man, what a classic bang, gonna fire up Spotify and listen to it again
Which is extremely frustrating when you’re new to Lemmy and trying to learn how it works, or how to do certain things. Most of the results are for Lemmy the musician.
Then it derives from the reason, Lemmy Kilmister was called that, too. He was constantly broke and asked everybody “can you lemmy a fiver?” I can relate.
So, seriously, can you? Here’s my PayPal: …
