thefacebook.com isn't exactly a great name.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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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.
What about them is cringe?
GIMP has joined the chat
Fair, but it is a joke like git I think
~~Graphical~~ GNU Image Manipulation Program I believe.
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Thanks for the fix
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.
I can get behind that Scotty
Re-beam me!
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?
Ah yes my favourite website with an X in it
Tumblr! Flickr!
Reddit is a fire name "I read it on reddit" would be such a sexy tagline.
Also duckduckgo is hilarious as a name
I don't think they're any more cringe than most non-federated services.
yep. the only thing worse than reddit was 'digg'. blech.
and im comin from moist
Fark might be a very close second.
lol! At least that instance is funny
For real. Pixelfed is a god awful name. Mastodon and Lemmy I think are okay.
Yeah but Mastodon has "toots"
Toots is adorable
You think names like instagram or bard are any better?
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.
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
I mean, Lemmy just follows the same logic as Reddit, it's the mascot name
The reddit mascot's name is Snoo. The name comes from the wordplay–"I read it on reddit"
Instagram actually makes sense, just like facebook. Idk what bard is.
Probably the google Gemini predecessor. Google bard
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.
Fediverse makes sense but it sounds like some lame Disney thing.
Your comparidon doesn't look negative to me considering how popular disney is
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.
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.
Ok grammar nazi, that isn’t relevant to my point at all. What’s popular isn’t always good.
Where did I contest your point?
From a marketing point it's good. Of course popular do not equal good from a quality perspective