muelltonne@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 25 days ago‘It’ll be solemn, enshrining his ashes’: statue of Lemmy to be unveiled in his home town of Stoke-on-Trentwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up186
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minus-squarexor@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·24 days agoi wish open source developers would pick better names… lemmy, diaspora, mastodon, gimp, linux… it’s nearly impossible to talk about this stuff to a non nerd… i think half of Bluesky’s success is due to it being much easier to talk about.
minus-squaremuelltonne@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoYou have a point, but let’s not pretend that Google, Meta, Twitter, X, TikTok or AliExpress are better names. Companies also have really weird names
i wish open source developers would pick better names… lemmy, diaspora, mastodon, gimp, linux…
it’s nearly impossible to talk about this stuff to a non nerd…
i think half of Bluesky’s success is due to it being much easier to talk about.
You have a point, but let’s not pretend that Google, Meta, Twitter, X, TikTok or AliExpress are better names. Companies also have really weird names