• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    god damn why do so many federated services have such awful fucking names that feel disgusting to say

    friendica sounds like a strain of bacteria that eats your ligaments

    https://xkcd.com/856/

    TROCHEES, MOTHER FUCKERS, USE THEM IN YOUR FUCKING BRANDING.

    FACEBOOK. YOUTUBE. WHATSAPP. TIKTOK. SNAPCHAT. REDDIT. DISCORD. TUMBLR.

    TWITTER before it turned to utter shit partially because its name was changed to “X”.

    Hell even LEMMY is a Trochee and I think that’s part of why it’s managed to stand up to reddit this well!

    Even the big names that AREN’T trochaic get truncated to trochees! INSTA! PIN-TREST!

    They try to truncate Mastodon to Mast-o but people keep thinking THAT’S a reference to a disease too.

    fucking hell

    I’M MAD BECAUSE I WANT FEDVERSE SHIT TO SUCCEED AND IT’S LEAVING THIS PERFECTLY ACCESSIBLE LOW HANGING FRUIT TO ROT ON THE VINE WHEN IT NEEDS EVERY LAST FUCKING SCRAP OF HELP IT CAN GET

    the best time to change it was before it was made.

    the second best time is RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.

    and the longer they delay, the more painful it’s going to be getting passed up by BLUESKY.

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      10 hours ago

      Maston
      Fedverse
      Friendic

      These kinda suck, tbh. Might need a full rebrand.

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        9 hours ago

        Proposal for Mastodon: Trunky.

        It’s bouncy and fun sounding with bright percussive phonemes. The “R” also gives it an energetic vibe.

        Being a microblogging platform, it can both be a reference of how one truncates one’s messages, but also maintain the mammoth reference as well as sidelong imply the other definitions of ‘trunk’ which are also useful: a box where you keep stuff, and the central pathway from which other pathways branch.

        You can keep calling the posts “toots” too.

        However, I think “Favorites” should just be called Likes, or hell … updoots if you REALLY want to lean into the mascot.

        If so, however, boosting and bookmarking should also be changed to align with the mascot.

        Either call them Retoots … or Trumpets! And bookmarking can just be called “Remember” (because “Elephants Never Forget”)

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      10 hours ago

      I think Friendica is a good name. And I don’t think it sounds like a bacterial strain that eats ligaments. I think of friendship when I hear it.