It's indeed an odd name but holding it back from what ? Its not a popularoty contest . Why is "widespread adoption" seen as the metric for success? That onky needed for shitty commercial products, to me it's great right now..
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its a link aggregator based off reddit, showing up higher in the resulrs when it's own name is googled would be nice
But Lemmy is God
Lemmy needs better marketing. The name is lame an non-descriptive of what it is. The UI, while awesome to the tech savvy is not modern enough to compete with alternatives. For Lemmy to succeed it has to become "cool" and it's not there yet and seems to lack that sort of direction.
I confess that it is always odd to see a musician, now deceased for a decade, when searching for this platform. Mind you, that is an ongoing tribute to their legacy, which is how it came about.
In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that."
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)#History
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some would prefer the limited growth.
i picked moist because who the fuck would want to market that
Well, there is that one guyβ¦
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when I say 'fediverse' people think I'm saying 'fetiverse' and sometimes they ask if it's like open source fetlife. π«
When I mention the Fediverse to my gf she thinks I am talking about the "Fedeverso" an allusion to "Fedelobo" a Mexican YouTuber who looks a lot like a lot of Mexicans (hence the "Fedeverso") I don't blame her lol.
The Fetaverse. Only Greek cheese.
TBH the kink community has been needing a replacement for fetlife for a while
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In my native language, fediverse translates to "fΓ©divers" which sounds like "faits divers" the "incidents" or "'news briefs" section of a journal.
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Better than people assuming it's a joke about it being full of feds, which I've seen before.
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Eh, names may sound stupid at first, but after saying it a million times it'll start to sound normal. "Google" sounded stupid and silly when they just first started, but now it sounds formal and makes you think of dystopia and dread.
I mean... reddit?
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No issues with the name. My problem is I canβt just do a simple search and add lemmy to make it search lemmy, like you can with Reddit.
This would change everything.
Kagi has a fediverse lens that works pretty well for that.
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As the name of open source projects go, Lemmy isn't the biggest dumpster fire I've come across. It's clear how to pronounce it, at least.
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Based on Twitterβs success, I donβt think names matter much. If it were named something like CockAndBallTorture, sure, but Lemmy is fine.
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I have to admit, the name did directly lead to me taking longer to adopt it.
Dead musicians aside, it's not a cool name. It's not a cute-in-a-quirky-way name, and most egregiously, it's an actual name. For a person.
I think that the fediverse is held back by its name, but since I don't have a solution, I usually never mention it. I try not to observe problems unless I have some solution, no matter how weak or terrible.
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What's holding it back is not having a button to filter out all the US drama. Eternity had it, but that app isn't working anymore.
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The description as a 'link aggregator' on the fediverse page is holding it back.
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