Wrong answers only. The stranger the better!
I can’t tell if this is a serious question or not, but it’s pretty complicated to fully explain. The short of the long of it is that now that MySpace has started to use retina verification for their 2FA, people are upset that it’s an invasion of privacy due to the reflective nature of human ball eyes. Since Lemmy only requires a password for mod accounts, it’s an easier platform for people to use to share embedded auto play music and glittery gifs. I don’t think it’ll last though, word on the street is that Digg is going to be removing all authentication methods soon, so I expect a majority of the userbase will move there
When Lemmy Kravitz said “it’s Lemmy Time” and Lemmied all over those guys.
The transdusing trinometer was incorrectly orientated resulting in a near waveform collapse. Of course, this resulted in micro collisions in the electrophase limiter. Resulting in the redirection of significant portions of the redditoids to lemmy.
haven’t you heard? there’s a virus called COVID that’s causing lockdowns.
That’s a hoax. It is fake news.
The Mandela Effect
Everyone was watching the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie one day, they googled Motörhead after hearing them perform You Better Swim in the bar scene, and the rest is history.
Cordyceps outbreak
Word got out about the amazing and intuitive UI, and the ease with which you can find and subscribe to your interests. Personally, I’m never going back to AOL.
Motörhead reunited and is doing a reunion tour. Fans are confusing Lemmy with Lemmy.
Communism. Americans decided they would fight KKK and Nazism with the same vigor and discovered that communism was way better.
Nothing wrong with communism but we joined Lemmy because we love China’s brand of far-right
People were searching for the game “Lemmings” and accidentally ended up here.
It’s because of the beautiful Pig Latin translation - Emmylay. That’s brought in a few thousand on its own.
A new algorithm was entered into our mainframe to help persuade us all to join a new website. In the control universe, life is going on as normal.
We live in the timeline where open source software is allowed to proliferate. Once we start getting too powerful they’ll have to shut it down and try another timeline
Lemmings have become the most popular animal on the planet, all the new users are confused as to what a lemming is.
Aliens