▲ 757 ▼ Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 year ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 305 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (4 children) Most of these names are absolutely atrocious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago Its one of the two hard problems of computer science after all permalink fedilink source parent [–] njordomir@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago Its one of the two hard problems of computer science after all permalink fedilink source parent [–] njordomir@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago Its one of the two hard problems of computer science after all permalink fedilink source parent
[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent