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Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon by WAHa_06x36 on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:54AM (#19838034)
You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely nothing whatsoever in terms of becoming popular.

Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.

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Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon by olah_1 on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:22AM (#19838717)
>Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.

Like what? I can't think of any bad ones that people use on a regular basis.

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Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon by WAHa_06x36 on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:13AM (#19839086)
Google, Facebook, Twitter...

You are USED to them, so they don't sound stupid. If you heard them for the first time, they'd sound utterly stupid.

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Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon by olah_1 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:41PM (#19841836)
Facebook sounds like what it is. Twitter has been discussed in this thread elsewhere (bird imagery makes sense). Google is essentially a nonsense word that turns out to be a real word based on a really big number (which makes sense).

Someone recommended finding evidence of people complaining about names back when these services first came out. I don't recall ever thinking any of these names were stupid, despite other issues I had with the services.

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