«A person who follows the will of others, especially in a mass movement, and heads straight into a situation or circumstance that is dangerous, stupid, or destructive.»

So i guess we are in the midst of a lemmingrun right now!

  • spaduf
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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t think this platform specific language needs to stick around. I really think a lot of that originated as marketing and has always felt somewhat unnatural to me. Particularly because the threadiverse/fediverse is made up of many interconnecting platforms it’s pretty clear that these terms will cause more friction than anything else.

    This is also why I prefer lemmy’s communities to kbin’s magazines. Communities feels more like a universal description while magazines feels like platform specific language.

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      1 year ago

      This is it, imo. Especially because mastodon and kbin federate as well, trying to make an identity out of “lemmy” doesn’t really work.

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    Some of the most memorable scenes in White Wilderness, Disney’s 1958 Academy Award-winning “True-Life Adventure” nature documentary about wildlife in the snowy northern portions of the North American continent, were ones featuring lemming suicide: the death of lemmings who drowned after jumping off cliffs and into the sea. But the scenes shown in the documentary were staged by filmmakers in order to replicate supposed real-life behavior of lemmings that could not be captured on film, and thus did Disney perpetuate for generations to come the legend of periodic, inexplicable mass suicides by lemmings who die by hurling themselves off of cliffs.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/