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

submitted 10 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 4 hours 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.