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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by laumars on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:47AM (#19084197)
Not intentionally. Mastodon is also a name of a Twitter-like social network. So the title here makes perfect sense for people like myself who hadn't heard of the band with the same name.

This is just one of those occasions where name collisions happen through nobodies fault.

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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by wfriesen on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:40AM (#19084427)
Metal has quite a few name collisions, but perhaps the most unfortunate is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band)
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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by samatman on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:05AM (#19084559)
That’s an unfortunate name collision everywhere.

I know three women, all over 30, who chose the name Isis, and a kid who was given it and goes by Tara now.

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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by reitanqild on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:41AM (#19085144)
It was also meant to be the name of a major ElementaryOS release IIRC.
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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by pmyteh on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:22AM (#19085486)
The River Thames through Oxford is locally known as the Isis, so there are dozens of businesses called things like the 'Isis Guest House'. Many of them have rebranded.
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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by hasloi on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:30AM (#19084682)
Isis is also the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess.
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Re:Mastodon for Metalheads by kbenson on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:58AM (#19085788)
I imagine it's a recurring problem. There were probably some people named Hitler in the 40's that faced the same problem. I imagine Adolf too, to a much lesser degree.
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