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Yikes. I was half expecting you to end that last sentence with a contemptuous "NERRRRRRRRRDS!!!"
by LexiMax 3y ago
Yikes. I was half expecting you to end that last sentence with a contemptuous "NERRRRRRRRRDS!!!"
- Nextgrid 3y agoThe fact that the fediverse crowd see nothing wrong with naming a social network "Mastodon" implies "NERRRDS" without having to even mention it. Btw, I say this as a nerd & tech guy that hates ad-supported social media and wishes for a better alternative, but the current iteration "fediverse" is not it, for many different reasons besides branding which I've written about previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=“Nextgrid”%20“mastodon&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- LexiMax 3y ago> The fact that the fediverse crowd see nothing wrong with naming a social network "Mastodon" implies "NERRRDS" without having to even mention it. I don't think Mastodon even makes the top 25 of most cringeworthy social media parlance when "tweet" continues to be the reigning champion since 2006.