Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastodon more?

Re:Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastod... by MaxPengwing on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:34AM (#36612964)

Thanks! Easy onboarding is definitely needed. We're all technologists here and we don't mind wonky UX with lacking documentation.

The name Mastodon is unfortunate, Twitter is a better name as Tweeting became a verb, not sure how to verb Mastodon without it becoming a lewd euphemism. "Hey I Mastodonded about that" erhm... you did what now?

How would you go about a rebrand of Mastodon?

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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastod... by distcs on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:55AM (#36615034)

> not sure how to verb Mastodon

Why does everything need to become a verb?

I have not seen people Linuxing or macOSing or iPhoning or Kubernetesing. Some nouns can remain nouns.

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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastod... by 111111IIIIIII on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:35AM (#36627192)

Stop trying and just have branding people do it.

It doesn't need to be a verb. Really anything that isn't so coarse would probably be fine. Twitter is not a very good name because it's so feminine, but it's way better. Threads is a perfectly fine name.

Just let branding people do it.

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