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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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Do we really call ourselves "lemmings"? I fee like that kind of portrays the wrong image of us.
I mean, it's like voluntarily going by "sheeple" or something. Do people not know what lemmings are anymore?
Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. The source of that myth comes from a documentary where the documentarians made them jump off cliffs.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that's definetily not the kind of look i'd want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN'T want to just follow the herd and use what's popular regardless of how shitty it gets.
Idk, crusading against common myths is something that's pretty hot these days. Stuff like:
Crusading for truth in easily verifiable matters feels very on-brand for the kind of people who use Lemmy. In that light, reclaiming a negative term that's only negative because of a false premise to describe ourselves doesn't sound so bad. At worst, we become a little insufferable as we have to introduce the term with a "well, ackshually", which a lot of us would probably do anyway.