Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don’t have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about “lemmings” or “redditors”. We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Ideas?
I’m not hosted on this instance, but I worry that named identities based on instance host may lead to tribalism, which would be unhealthy for Lemmy users and the fediverse as a whole. Using phrases like “local users” or “users of [instance name]” or “[instance name] accounts” may be a better option. We’re all in this big network to have a good time together.
Eh, i like our instance having an identity :p i don’t see it as elitism, just some fun. Users of dbzer0 works just fine, too; but having a little nickname is cool
Anarchists and elitism, can you imagine?
Doesn’t lend well.
This just in: gay people are elitist because they have their own culture and in-jokes! How dare they exclude homophobic straight people by calling themselves fags and other things
i think they were agreeing with us :^)
Of course I was.
Sorry abt that :p they just misunderstood your reply
Oh no, I know it’s my fault. You know I have a folksy, colloquial way of speaking, and I type like I speak.
I completely disagree. It’s not tribalism, it’s respecting coequal instance cultural differences. Each instance is self-governing, has an in group and an out group, and has culture associated with it as well as having voluntary association. If you want to erase individual instance identity and culture, good for you. Encourage that in your own instance or communities. We, as anarchists, pirates, neurodivergents and other things can decide these things for ourselves
pirates?
One thought I had
m@tes- It uses the word
matewhich is A) Pirate-coded B) Non-gendered - It uses 1337speak, which fits with the domain name (dbzer0)
- It uses a circled ‘a’ which, you know…
How about b@ts, as in “bats” referring to many things, among them:
- Landstreicher’s translation of Stirner’s “bats in the belfry” expression
- “Bats,” referring to the expression of insanity for our neurodiverse and other friends
- Bats, the animals, live in dark caves and only come out at night (pejorative for us being internet nerds)
- It uses the @ symbol and fits all of your criteria
- Bats are cool
I love it
Except for the fact that I read it as user@domain
- It uses the word
Maybe pirates or mates, since piracy is one of our core philosophies here. And our other ones also align with that similarly by being things that are rejected by current norm much like pirates were rejected by the current society at the time. I don’t know maybe it’s too obvious or boring.
These are mostly joke suggestions, but:
NaNs
nulls
voids
unhandled exceptions
… common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism, or can be interpreted as adopting a self-referential moniker which mocking the systems anarchists critique.
… probably it is a bit of a reach, but a good number of people refer to black cats as ‘voids’ these days, and … pretty decent history of angry black cats as symbols of anarchism.
You could also maybe l33tsp33k them up a bit?
Use ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ to pluralize?
Nullheads, zeronauts, diverrs?
Dunno, not creative
zeronauts
I like that one!
Deez Naughts
If only i can add this as an instance tagline 😔
Leech my seed!
… im sorry, rofl
i really do love the idea of m@tes
mates or mateys whatever’s fine
A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value
NaN, which stands for “Not a number”.So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.
Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60’s show The Prisoner: “I am not a number, I am a free man”
that would be so fucking rad
Divs seems short and snappy.
This is the only one here that doesn’t make me cringe
