Fun fact: Lemmy Kilmister, for whom these Fediverse iterations are named after owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for years leading up until his death. And just like every other person you've ever heard of who made Nazi iconography the centerpiece of their obsession, Lemmy was an entire piece of shit human being. Now you know. Fuck Lemmy.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Even though your comment is off topic, I will not let it go unchallenged. A lot of people who actually knew him would disagree with your statement. He did collect nazi memorabilia, but he was no nazi sympathiser.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy Kilmister, for whom these Fediverse iterations are named

Kind of a massive stretch:

"It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that."

Him dying recently to the naming is an incidental reasoning, not the main reason at all

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the info

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure of the relevance to a post about the Lemmy (social network) logo being a pentagram.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

TIL. Sad to hear.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

From Wikipedia:

Lemmy collected German military regalia; he had an Iron Cross emblazoned on his bass, which led to accusations of Nazi sympathies. He stated that he collected Nazi memorabilia because he liked the way it looked, and he considered himself an anarchist. He spoke against racism many times. Lemmy said he was against religion, government, and established authority. Lemmy defended his collection by saying that if his then-girlfriend (who was black) had no problem with it, nobody else should.

So not completely black-and-white