I feel like I’m going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person (“does it have to do with ‘the feds’?”)
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like “ohh, I love that band”
I feel like we’re in a naming crisis haha
Amazon? You mean the rainforest?
Yahoo? Like a crazy person? Did you misspell the drink?
Sorry, you just tweeted? You mean like a bird?
Tumblr? Oh, facebook for acrobats, right?
Most names sound weird or confusing until you’re familiar with it. A googol is a number, but nobody bats an eye when you tell people to “google” something.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person (“does it have to do with ‘the feds’?”)
It’s short for federated universe… I like the term actually, but hey, we don’t get to choose the name as far as I know.
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like “ohh, I love that band”
Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂… but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I’d get what you’re trying to say… or at least ask “not the band, right”, lol 😂.
I feel like we’re in a naming crisis haha
Naaah… how do you think Linux users felt when they started using it and found command names like cat, grep, tar 😂.
Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂… but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I’d get what you’re trying to say… or at least ask “not the band, right”, lol 😂.
it was deadass on /r/technology my bad /r/worldnews when people were talking about twitter alternatives
I don’t even know why I got so many upvotes considering nobody ever corrected them
I feel like I’m going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person (“does it have to do with ‘the feds’?”)
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like “ohh, I love that band”
I feel like we’re in a naming crisis haha
Amazon? You mean the rainforest?
Yahoo? Like a crazy person? Did you misspell the drink?
Sorry, you just tweeted? You mean like a bird?
Tumblr? Oh, facebook for acrobats, right?
Most names sound weird or confusing until you’re familiar with it. A googol is a number, but nobody bats an eye when you tell people to “google” something.
Fediverse also makes it sound like some weird Metaverse thing, which isn’t ideal either.
It’s short for federated universe… I like the term actually, but hey, we don’t get to choose the name as far as I know.
Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂… but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I’d get what you’re trying to say… or at least ask “not the band, right”, lol 😂.
Naaah… how do you think Linux users felt when they started using it and found command names like cat, grep, tar 😂.
yeah I mean, we know that.
it was deadass on /r/technologymy bad /r/worldnews when people were talking about twitter alternativesI don’t even know why I got so many upvotes considering nobody ever corrected them