Piefedi, lemmy, fediverse? I want to share them as reddit alternatives but their naming is super cringe. Did people find Reddit’s naming choice poor in the beginning?

  • venotic
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    37 days ago

    I wish I had a good answer for this as to why there has been a history of questionable names to most of the things we’ve familiarized ourselves with.

    Because sometimes I do question the names of services, apps, tools and other things about who the sorry sap had the audacity to name something as it is. Google, Amazon, Uber and it just goes on and even extends to other industries.

    I think some of the ones that always make me stop the most are all of the animal-related names to Linux distros.

  • HubertManne
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    147 days ago

    I don’t view them any worse than google or yahoo or reddit, etc. etc. I do like refering to the fediverse as the federation but thats just my star trek bias.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 days ago

      Yes? Should I not? “insta” as in instanteous, and “gram” as in a telegram. This is a name rooted in already understood language to give me an understanding of what it is at first encounter. Bard, same, something that tells a story, I’d assume. But I’ve never seen it before so /shrug.

      “Lemmy” means nothing to me.

      Fediverse is good. “Verse” to the end of anything suggests it’s own ecosystem, or “universe,” and Fedi for federation. Makes sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 days ago

        Instagram make sense but it’s not catchy and use the name of a very old tech. I wonder how many young people still know about telegraphy machines. You are right m abiut mastodon but i think it’s still catchy and easy to remember

      • ByteMe
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        27 days ago

        Probably the google Gemini predecessor. Google bard

      • @[email protected]
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        17 days ago

        Fediverse make sense it is a combination of federation and universe. Pixelfed too, you get fed pixels aka images. Lemmy and mastodon may not have obvious connection to what they does but they are still catchier named than facebook, instagram and twitter.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              27 days ago

              Your comparidon doesn’t look negative to me considering how popular disney is

              Is that a mastodon pun?

              I disagree by a lot. Popular doesn’t equal good. New Star Wars sucks. Recent marvel is copy cut garbage. The president won by popular vote but that doesn’t mean its not negative.

              • @[email protected]
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                7 days ago

                From a marketing point it’s good. Of course popular do not equal good from a quality perspective

              • @[email protected]
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                17 days ago

                The president won [the] popular vote

                Only if you ignore the huge amounts of voter suppression. If you don’t, then he lost the popular vote and the electoral vote - netting 45.8% of the popular vote to Kamala’s 52.7%, and he earned at most (and probably less than) 252 electoral votes to Kamala’s 286.

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  17 days ago

                  Ok grammar nazi, that isn’t relevant to my point at all. What’s popular isn’t always good.