What does kbin mean? Why is kbin.social called that?
Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
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Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
Great. Now we gotta Google what a Karabin Gun is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbine
but like... why tho?
Because of the rapid fire content, I guess?
shrug
It's such a bad domain name
It's Polish for "rifle".
so it's a "gun rifle"? why in the world would they name a platform after it?
It was a play on words, from /sbin. More info in the top thread.
Not sure, perhaps he liked the domain karab.in. But honestly, there's plenty of weirder names out there, even among the biggest brands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kbsp\_wz.\_1938M
This just happens to have the "karabin" in the name but it simply means a rifle.