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
GraphicalGNU Image Manipulation Program I believe.GNU Image Manipulation Program
Thanks for the fix
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
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
Ah yes my favourite website with an X in it
Tumblr! Flickr!
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
thefacebook.com isn’t exactly a great name.
For real. Pixelfed is a god awful name. Mastodon and Lemmy I think are okay.
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.
