Good luck going around, putting the proverbial gun against the devs of way over 100 Fediverse projects that are fully independent from another (no, there is no central Fediverse branding department) and forcing them to rename their stuff NOW OR ELSE!!!
A few exceptions that are trochees right now:
Forte (which may pretty well be the Fediverse of 2030 by this logic)
It’s bouncy and fun sounding with bright percussive phonemes. The “R” also gives it an energetic vibe.
Being a microblogging platform, it can both be a reference of how one truncates one’s messages, but also maintain the mammoth reference as well as sidelong imply the other definitions of ‘trunk’ which are also useful: a box where you keep stuff, and the central pathway from which other pathways branch.
You can keep calling the posts “toots” too.
However, I think “Favorites” should just be called Likes, or hell … updoots if you REALLY want to lean into the mascot.
If so, however, boosting and bookmarking should also be changed to align with the mascot.
Either call them Retoots … or Trumpets! And bookmarking can just be called “Remember” (because “Elephants Never Forget”)
Maston
Fedverse
Friendic
These kinda suck, tbh. Might need a full rebrand.
Good luck going around, putting the proverbial gun against the devs of way over 100 Fediverse projects that are fully independent from another (no, there is no central Fediverse branding department) and forcing them to rename their stuff NOW OR ELSE!!!
A few exceptions that are trochees right now:
At least Misskey is a trochee
Proposal for Mastodon: Trunky.
It’s bouncy and fun sounding with bright percussive phonemes. The “R” also gives it an energetic vibe.
Being a microblogging platform, it can both be a reference of how one truncates one’s messages, but also maintain the mammoth reference as well as sidelong imply the other definitions of ‘trunk’ which are also useful: a box where you keep stuff, and the central pathway from which other pathways branch.
You can keep calling the posts “toots” too.
However, I think “Favorites” should just be called Likes, or hell … updoots if you REALLY want to lean into the mascot.
If so, however, boosting and bookmarking should also be changed to align with the mascot.
Either call them Retoots … or Trumpets! And bookmarking can just be called “Remember” (because “Elephants Never Forget”)
I like that. They need to lean in to it