NolanTech journalists on Mastodon: "Mastodon Inc only has 50,000 users, but with adequate venture capital funding it may stand a chance"
More tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon is currently a free service, but soon it will bend to the iron will of Silicon Valley, which is that you either sell out to investors or become irrelevant like Wikipedia."
Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
JBBdude@nolan "They should choose an enterprise-friendly name."
a) As if this is being positioned as an enterprise product. Federating PMs anyone? LGBTQIA+ and furry communities dominating development? What?
b) Slack. Github. Yammer. Nginx. Sure, there's also CloudFlare, AWS, EC2, Salesforce, and other "business-y" names, but it's clear that names are not destiny in tech.
a) As if this is being positioned as an enterprise product. Federating PMs anyone? LGBTQIA+ and furry communities dominating development? What?
b) Slack. Github. Yammer. Nginx. Sure, there's also CloudFlare, AWS, EC2, Salesforce, and other "business-y" names, but it's clear that names are not destiny in tech.