As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket

demvoter@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social – 146 points – As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
freezenet.ca

The battle between Reddit and its CEO continues. With that battle continuing on, ActivityPubs user count continues to soar.

40

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"
I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

I'll respectfully disagree here; activitypub isn't catchy and it's too many syllables. Kbin lemmy and beehaw all pass the "correct-number-of-syllables-and-memorable-without-being-common-words" test.

But I prefer fediverse overall anyway. I'll tell people that i use the fediverse and made my account using kbin. i think that says it all, really.

Yeah ActivityPub is too long, agree there... maybe ActiPub, that sounds sweet 😊.

But I prefer fediverse overall anyway. I'll tell people that i use the fediverse and made my account using kbin. i think that says it all, really.

😬... you might have to do some more explaining with some people 😂.

Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")

It's short for federated universe... I like the term actually, but hey, we don't get to choose the name as far as I know.

I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

Naaah... how do you think Linux users felt when they started using it and found command names like cat, grep, tar 😂.

It's short for federated universe.

yeah I mean, we know that.

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

it was deadass on /r/technology my bad /r/worldnews when people were talking about twitter alternatives
I don't even know why I got so many upvotes considering nobody ever corrected them

Lol, that is interesting 😂. Maybe they saw the reply, decied to google, saw what you're talking about and then went "mmmm, this is some good info, upvote... nevermind these fuckers in the replies, let them suffer" 😂.

Fediverse also makes it sound like some weird Metaverse thing, which isn't ideal either.

Amazon? You mean the rainforest?
Yahoo? Like a crazy person? Did you misspell the drink?
Sorry, you just tweeted? You mean like a bird?
Tumblr? Oh, facebook for acrobats, right?

Most names sound weird or confusing until you're familiar with it. A googol is a number, but nobody bats an eye when you tell people to "google" something.

I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.

Oh, nice play there, lol, love it 😂.

I wonder what Lemmy users are to be called. I've seen lemmings.

Welcome to open software and systems. Ultra-talented and motivated people, but not a single marketer or good UI designer to be found.

I've been using an image editing program for the last 20 years whose acronym spells out "G.I.M.P.".

Yeah Leviathan is a masterpiece though people are a little harsh on Emperor of Sand... What're we talking about again?

 ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")

That's exactly why I cringe every time I read it