The origin of the name is actually told in Lemmy’s GitHub page, it’s not just the Motorhead singer and Lemmings:

Why’s it called Lemmy?

• Lead singer from Motörhead.
• The old school video game.
• The Koopa from Super Mario.
• The furry rodents.

So basically the name came from an amalgam of things the lead dev liked.

Federating in the meantime is not.

Dude, Threads isn’t federating with anything right now. That’s the point, we’re not federated so there’s no reason to make a decision on something that won’t happen yet.

I’ve made many comments saying why we should defederate with Threads but I still agree with the admins that there’s no point in doing a knee-jerk reaction on a threat that

A) won’t happen until at least a few months later

B) likely won’t federate with Lemmy anyways

C) isn’t actually a threat to Lemmy, but could pose a threat to microblogging websites like Mastodon

So yeah, waiting and seeing isn’t stupid.

Dumb take. Lemmy.world devs simply said it’s not likely Threads will federate with Lemmy anytime soon anyways, and they’ll make a decision when there is actually a decision to be made.

A shame.

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world Hey, what do you think of beans?

I didn’t say we should harass admins, I’m saying it’s up to us as a community to either move to an instance that defederates or if you know what you’re doing, stay on an instance that does federate and don’t add content to Threads. Lurking is okay, but posting there means you’re adding value to them and taking away from local communities and slowly rendering other instances irrelevant.

It bothers me that after leaving for-profit social media, a lot of people here are totally fine going straight back to them. Have we really learned nothing?

I disagree with this. You’re saying we should watch Meta invade and profit off the fediverse and do nothing? Just because it’s an open standard doesn’t mean we should watch and let it happen, defederating is retaliation. The fediverse isn’t going to succeed by people doing nothing and watching others ruin it.

We’ve seen this happen. Many times. If the fediverse admins are going to repeat the mistakes of other standards then it’s going to slowly get worse until people do another standard and do it all over again.