know how social media like Reddit and Tumblr are made fun of for their groupthink? Mastodon and the Fediverse has its own groupthink.
the video mentions Mastodon in passing but says the name sounds like a joke. and yeah, Threads is a much better name. kind of wish Mastodon wasn't named Mastodon. never liked the name. FOSS software in general tends to have ugly names.
@thor FOSS has some of the worst names. I really liked Clojure in college but so many libraries were just clj-[some name] and it's so uncreative.
The name mastodon is too long and the fact people were so determined to call posts "Toots" though the German creator didn't know what it meant. Lots of things bother me.
@evanpeterjones there's nothing to stop anyone from forking it and rebranding it though. i've been using a fork named Glitch. but they didn't fully rebrand it, so it still says Mastodon in many places. definitely possible to do though. wouldn't pick the name Glitch either though.
@realcaseyrollins it's closer to actually having a nice name, although i will say that "soapbox" doesn't carry the best of connotations. most examples in dictionaries are kind of negative.
@realcaseyrollins as with most YouTube videos, i'm sure there are inaccuracies, by the way, but this is a pretty mainstream YouTube channel. he has more followers than there are accounts on Mastodon...
@realcaseyrollins he talks about tech but he does so in a very approachable way. you could send his videos to your non-geeky friends and they'd be able to follow just fine.
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