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> Nowhere it's touted as a rival to youtube in the popularity sense, just like you wouldn't call WordPress a rival to Twitter. But I also wouldn't give it a na
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Nowhere it's touted as a rival to youtube in the popularity sense, just like you wouldn't call WordPress a rival to Twitter.
But I also wouldn't give it a name that, to the casual observer, makes it _sound_ like a rival to Twitter.
- glenstein 3y agoI think this speaks to the frustration that OP has which I also do, which is that the commentary has barely moved even a millimeter past first impressions. It's not in the form of any kind of principled objection to the project of building out the fediverse, any technical issue with the choice of technologies, or any affirmative argument in favor of the status quo where all this activity being captured by increasingly enshittified platforms. The motivations and the objectives are play are wrestling with important questions, and the peanut gallery thinks that talking about the first impression of the name counts as participating in that conversation, which is depressing.
- seydor 3y agoYou mean a name like Tumblr