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“Mastodon” as a product name, to me, doesn’t sound inviting at all. Evokes associations with masturbate, Mammoth and the general sense of something big, dark an
by leobg 4y ago
“Mastodon” as a product name, to me, doesn’t sound inviting at all. Evokes associations with masturbate, Mammoth and the general sense of something big, dark and clunky.
If you have used the product and like it, I’m sure you won’t care about the name, or even come to like and cherish it. But for an outsider who just hears about this thing I would argue that it’s not very approachable.
- timbit42 4y agoApparently my mind isn't in the gutter like yours, but after using it, it's vastly better than Twitter ever was, and I left more than a year ago so I can't speak to what Twitter is now, but I hear it's going downhill.
- leobg 4y agoI shared a personal perspective, while allowing that people using and likening the service might see things differently. Your response is that you disagree and therefore your mind is better than mine. Quite strong a judgement about another person based on a sample size of two sentences.
- pxmpxm 4y agoOpen source people a notoriously terrible at naming thing, Mastodon is a prime example of that. Too many syllables, too much negative phonetic connotation and any focus group would tell you there's about 3 people that know what a Mastodon was. Should've gone with Mamood or some such romanticized version of an elephant thingy.