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What's up with so many activitypub services having really cringe names? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 4 days ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Instagram actually makes sense, just like facebook. Idk what bard is.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fediverse makes sense but it sounds like some lame Disney thing.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

Where did I contest your point?

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From a marketing point it's good. Of course popular do not equal good

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Probably the google Gemini predecessor. Google bard