'Lemmitor' is too much like 'Redditor'. Why not something reflecting how Lemmy is better than Reddit, like ... Lemmyst?
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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Lemmitor is used derogatively, the point is precisely to highlight how a bunch of users left reddit but try to shape Lemmy into exactly the sort of place they left (or were kicked out of) starting with its worst aspects. It's mostly used to describe a user who engages in annoying redditisms such as that obnoxious John Oliver kind of shallow, terminally ironic outlook on politics.
Yes, that's the joke.
βLemmitorβ is too much like βRedditorβ.
If it's USAmerican or Western imperialist power context, then often the fishook theory seems more applicable:
Going off the fish hook theory I've only really seen it used by those using it as stethoscope theory but with those on the center somehow on the left
I am not familiar with the person on the right.
I think that's Bukharin.
Trotsky, Stalin, Lenin in that order
No, it's Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin.
oh yeah it was tiny and blurry on my screen
God, I hate the political compas
It's so lazy! I don't have a better suggestion but the linear scale is effectively the compass with liberal in the centre, authoritarian on either end and lazy people decided that the more "left" or "right" you are the closer to authoritarian you are.
Idk if I've even seen anarchist on the scale but I'd like to see some justification for where it gets sat.
I always thought nationstates gets a bit closer (and it's funny)
Lemmy libs: "Smells like TANKIE!!!!!!!!"
Fun fact, if you meet someone who unironically uses the term "horseshoe theory", it is morally incumbent on you to kick the shit out of them until they can literally see inside themselves. It is then, and only then, that you are to ask them: "are you capable of introspection now?"
What about those who use _ stethoscope theory_?
The more centrist you are, the more correct you are. So if you aren't centrist enough, you need to centre even harder until the fence spike is poking right up your arsehole. Then you can feel smug as you look down on all the "extremists" and give a wink to the Nazi.
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