Lemmy though? At first it reminded me of lemon 🍋 I looked up "lemmy" and found an origin of the name, which means "Devoted to God" and is a diminutive of Lemuel.

But where the service's name originates is partially from the name of Ian Frasier Kilmister, aka Lemmy, from the band Motorhead.

The origin of his name: "The name originated from his often said sentence “can you lem’me five?” oder “lemme a fiver?”." (Source)

Then finally the Wikipedia reveals full information that the creator partially took the name from Lemmy the Motorhead band member, and a game called Lemmings, which he had been playing at the time.

This is in case anyone has wondered why this interesting service has such an odd name!

#lemmy #lemmyorigins

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[–] ikantolol@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's arbitrary and the developer probably didn't expect Lemmy to grow that big lol

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just figued they called it lemmy so we'd all be called lemmings

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I thought it was named after lemurs after the lemur-like behaviour people exhibit on socialmedia.

[–] superkret@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just glad the name is not something related to r****t.