I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages.

End of rant.

Edit: above all I don’t think it’s a cool name. Can’t imagine asking my friends to follow me on Mastodon. They’re just gonna think it’s something dumb or weird. At least if it had a cool name they would be curious and ask what it’s about.

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    111 year ago

    Tech nerds kinda like to name things stupidly. I find myself doing that too. Because overall, I’m not looking to market/brand it and make millions. Many of my projects were proof of concepts or passion ideas that if the open-source world thinks there’s value, other nerds will let it grow.

    I came to this conclusion as I thought about WINE for Linux. It’s a silly name.

    But when Valve built Proton, they were intentional in the name sounding “marketable”.

    • Ready! Player 31
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      31 year ago

      We learned this with ‘blogosphere’ years ago, and now ‘fediverse’.