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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.
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
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.
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
Probably the google Gemini predecessor. Google bard