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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

What about them is cringe?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair, but it is a joke like git I think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

~~Graphical~~ GNU Image Manipulation Program I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

GNU Image Manipulation Program

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the fix

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can get behind that Scotty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Re-beam me!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be honest, most other websites are not better, we are just used to them. Google? TikTok? Bing? Reddit? Yahoo? X? Twitter? ChatGPT? DuckDuckGo? XNXX?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Ah yes my favourite website with an X in it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Tumblr! Flickr!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Reddit is a fire name "I read it on reddit" would be such a sexy tagline.

Also duckduckgo is hilarious as a name

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I don't think they're any more cringe than most non-federated services.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yep. the only thing worse than reddit was 'digg'. blech.

and im comin from moist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Fark might be a very close second.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

lol! At least that instance is funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For real. Pixelfed is a god awful name. Mastodon and Lemmy I think are okay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but Mastodon has "toots"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Toots is adorable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

thefacebook.com isn't exactly a great name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You think names like instagram or bard are any better?

[–] Glide 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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] 3 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, Lemmy just follows the same logic as Reddit, it's the mascot name

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The reddit mascot's name is Snoo. The name comes from the wordplay–"I read it on reddit"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Where did I contest your point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Probably the google Gemini predecessor. Google bard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.