4mo ago

What's up with so many activitypub services having really cringe names?

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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- Fair, but it is a joke like git I think
  
  ~~Graphical~~ GNU Image Manipulation Program I believe.
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?
- Reddit is a fire name "I read it on reddit" would be such a sexy tagline.
  Also duckduckgo is hilarious as a name
- Tumblr! Flickr!
- Ah yes my favourite website with an X in it
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
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
- 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.
thefacebook.com isn't exactly a great name.
For real. Pixelfed is a god awful name. Mastodon and Lemmy I think are okay.
- Yeah but Mastodon has "toots"
  
  Toots is adorable
What about them is cringe?

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