Ever thought about how we make this place sound cool to other people?

Spoiler: It's not 'Fedi'-anything.

https://forbetter.ghost.io/the-normal-response-to-the-social-web/

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The 'normal' response to the Social Web

How (mostly) 'normal' people respond to the ideas of the Social Web Marketing the Social Web is a headache. Only heightened by the clashing of heads as everyone offers an opinion. Picture those dinosaurs that have their skull on the outside. That's us. No wonder it's a headache. But even

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@saskia Been saying this for years. Hell, even I didn't really want to join something that called itself "Mastodon" for a few years.

The whole fedi sucks at naming everything, sans a few exceptions. E.g. the loops project which doesn't feel the need to shove "fedi" or a weird obscure whatever in the name.

@chrastecky

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The amount of times I've seen someone's interest instantly evaporate when you start adding these complicated words