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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

First picture I found on Google for each because I'm lazy but there they are with pictures attached.

Piefed
Piefed

Lemmy
Lemmy

Mastodon
Mastodon

Pixelfed
Pixelfed

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Most of these names are absolutely atrocious.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To be fair, are there any social media platforms that don't have a kind of stupid name?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I thought Diaspora was a decent sounding name. If it had more traction and actually pulled a sizeable diaspora away from Facebook it would have fit better than Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram's names.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Most of the big ones at least have some kind of coherence behind their naming scheme.

    The open source stuff is like: prehistoric hairy elephant, misspelled name of animal used as a metaphorical comparison for people doing dumb shit in a mob which seems to be insulting it's users, and then some random words slapped onto the word fed - none of which sound good.

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