• CascadianBeam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought it was because Reddit is like “read it” and Lemmy is like “Lemmy show you this”. Lemmings is a great name though.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t really think much of it myself, but when I joined, for like two weeks, joining instances was a bit harder due to some being closed and others having sporadic downtime. So one very common joke was people saying “Lemmy In! LEMMY IN!”