Lemmy isn't great either.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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It’s long
Eight letters, and 7~9 segments depending on the language. Compare it with other common brands like Facebook, Coca-Cola and Volkswagen.
it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages.
I'm casting doubt on this claim, based on the following:
- the vowels can be approximated fine in a 5-vowels system, i.e. the most common vowel system out there.
- it doesn't use any sort of complex onset or coda.
- even the coda consonants are non-occlusives.
doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue
This is subjective. Personally I think that plenty brands there are considerably worse in this aspect. With a notable mention: that phonotactic trainwreck called Threads. (Four consonants in a syllable, two of them exotic [for most languages at least]? No. Just no.)
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rename it Y
Split your lungs with blood and thunderrrr!!!
Wait, wrong Mastodon.
Only card to me is the ACE OF SPADES!
Wait, other correct Lemmy 😉
I just saw them a couple weeks ago, killer live show.
I rather like it.
Yep that's what this community is for
Tech nerds kinda like to name things stupidly. I find myself doing that too. Because overall, I'm not looking to market/brand it and make millions. Many of my projects were proof of concepts or passion ideas that if the open-source world thinks there's value, other nerds will let it grow.
I came to this conclusion as I thought about WINE for Linux. It's a silly name.
But when Valve built Proton, they were intentional in the name sounding "marketable".
We learned this with 'blogosphere' years ago, and now 'fediverse'.
Will you change your mind if I tell you that the "masto" in mastodon means "breasts"? ;P
Makes it even worse 😂
Agreed. We prefer Mumakil, my precious.
It's a way better name than X, or Xwitter, or whatever the Fffff that site calls itself these days.
Mastadons are amazing and hence Mastadon is an amazing name.
Cutting it short to 'Masto' would be the best idea tbh. Nice and short without making a huge change.
Apparently that means tits
That's makes it even better. Everyone loves tits
True (well, almost true), but I'm not sure everyone will want to ask people to "follow me on tits" 😄
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I vastly prefer Don. Or, if you must, Tits. Masto is tits and chewing
Please, just do not. Do not shorten any name or word. It sounds terribly, as if some wannabee-cool marketeer without a basic dignity of language-user invented it.
Tooties 👀
what else would you call a service where you post toots?
Tooter
I think they officially changed the name to posts, rather than toots. But I always did feel like that held back the platform from being taken seriously. Like, can you imagine a news reporter saying, “Responding to the rise in reported domestic terrorism, President Biden tooted to the nation…”
I mean, how much dumber is that than "tweeted"? We just get numb to it eventually.
Tweet was definitely normalized over time, but it also isn’t a synonym for fart so there’s that.
Wii.
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Horn?
No. Nope never mind
Synonym of a fart is also a really terrible name.
I couldn't stop spelling it Mastadon .... I even spelled it wrong in my id I gave to people. 😀
I like it because it reminds me of the dinozords from MMPR. To see the whole set coming together as one federation would be hilarious/awesome.
I think it's a cool name. And I dunno if it's still a thing but I remember back in the day posts were called toots or something, which I approve of. :P
The first time I heard of Mastodon I thought it was a drug similar to Methadone
Doesn't matter, other services implementing the ActivityPub standard can have names easier to pronounce by non-English speakers, like Misskey, and the two can interact.
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