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This is not going to be a blogpost about “Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?”. I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven’t even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    115·
    12 hours ago

    Just gonna throw this out there: Lemmy is a bad and dumb name.

    1. It’s a joke about users being lemmings
      • this subtly denegrates the user on every usage
      • this implies the app/product itself isn’t that serious and sounds kinda childish
    2. It’s not a satisfying word from a pronunciation standpoint. How many other company or product names can you think of that end with that ee sound? Reddit, Twitter, Threads, they all end with these conclusive consonant sounds. Lemmy sounds like it’s trailing off while whining.
    3. At best it conjures up images of rat like rodents.
    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Lemmy say that this whole “name dumb” thing is idiotic and completely subjective anyway. You should really go outside and take a look at the names of products people use.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      181·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t think you’re wrong but I question how much the name really matters. As a name, Reddit is also kind of confusing until someone explains the pun and has historically been seen as weird. Only reason it’s not weird now is cause it’s popular. The name “lemmy” could just as well see the same happen.

      • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
        151·
        12 hours ago

        I agree with you here, if people have no problems using Tiktok or Bilibili or Zalando, Lemmy shouldn’t be much worse.