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> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messag
by daveid 7y ago
> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages
This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoExcept, with Mastodon, there isn't even a metaphor. At least Spotify (to look at another example), which is a terrible name, is a non-sense word without any baggage.
- olah_1 7y ago"Pidgin" or some variation is actually a great name for a communication tool. You're better at naming things than you realize.
- r00fus 7y agohttp://pidgin.im http://pidgin.im was a great chat client when I had friends/clients who gtalk, XMPP and sametime. Even supports OTR encryption.