forumnet? Boardpub?
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I would say Men of Low Moral Fibre but that's not inclusive...
We went with "forum style" fediverse platform
Nice guide!
Versed
That's actually cool
Versed rolls off the tongue. Bonus affinity from me (healthcare worker) for sounding like the benzo. ;)
I've thought the same about "link aggregator" on join-lemmy.org, even though it seems like the best two words to use to describe such platforms, it needs further explanation most of the time.
Reddit was hard to market for the same reasons, although they had a pretty good name.
Disqus is actually a quite good name when you think about it
Disqus, Discourse, Discord, yeah, never gonna be able to able to remember which is which ...
Discuit for 200 more users
Sounds like disgust
What makes you say that? Just curious
Close to the "discuss" concept, and doesn't sound too bad, especially compared to the rest of the names here
That's valid. It makes me think of frisby or something.
Feditriad/feditrinity???
Jk. I think forumverse works fine, i guess. Threadi sounds weirder imo but that's just personal opinion
Forumverse isn't too bad
Fediforums? could have Fediblogs for the masto/microblogging sites
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"Wheel of Fish"
"You should have kept the fish!!!"
Does anybody has a better name other than "fediverse"? I find it pretty terrible due to my native language.
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On a more serious note (compared to my previous comments), I don't think this is a good idea. While it has the best of intentions, it only leads to further fragmention and confusion.
I was just thinking about the main criticism we get when we promote Lemmy, which is "why are there so many different URLs, names, platforms? What is Voyager, Photon, Piefed, Lemmy? Feddit.uk, lemmy.ca?"
So, in the same logic as just saying "go to https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content and see if you like it. If you want an app, the links are on https://vger.app/settings/install", I think it could be interesting to have a global name for everything. We could even try with Photon, to be honest.
"Go to https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content and see if you like it. If you want an app, the links are on https://phtn.app/mobile (which would redirect to the 2 Voyager links). Example of confusion some users experience: https://old.reddit.com/r/RejoinEU/comments/1ipff9z/ok_so_what_next_what_can_you_do_to_help_the_cause/me0jdxp/?context=3
I'm not against a consolidated name that fully encapsulates the ActivityPubiverse, and still think that is important to driving people in. Fediverse is probably sufficient enough for the time being. But user activity begins when users can interact with it, so perhaps introducing instances as 'lemdro.id, a Lemmy platform' or something of that ilk could achieve that. That way, it's not seen as a competing standard, just an implementation of one. Then, as users become more familiar with the ecosystem, the hierarchy and segments could be learnt over time if they choose to do so.
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how about we call it
THIS.
or
/THREAD
or
fuckspez
or lemmyseedemBeans
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For some reason I've never been very drawn to the name Lemmy.
Maybe because it sounds too similar to lemon? I don't know but there's just something off about it to me...
I like some of the alternatives that have been suggested so far, but struggling to come up with my own. Here's some really dumb and nonsensical ones:
Fediflections Rippleverse Gumbofedi 🤣
Gumbofedi
In line with the Fediverse tradition of having very debatable names 😄