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New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It looks pretty cool, but I can't help but feel that a really catchy name for a service is important. I wish it weren't true as it is such an insignificant aspect of an entire platform.

Either way I'm going to sign up and check it out.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Firefish is definitely a bit of an unfortunate rebranding. Though 'Calckey' wasn't exactly setting the world on fire, as a name, either. But at the end of the day, we really need to learn to recontextualize fediverse plataforms as software that runs a service, not the service itself. They're website engines that power social websites, not a social brand in and of themselves, kind of like how WordPress is a quasi-static website suite that is used for a huge number of blogs and quais-static websites.

    No one shares something from, say, the TechCrunch website, or Time website, and goes "Hey, Iook what I found on WordPress!"

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