This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.

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    9 个月前

    Friendica was the fediverse, before there was a fediverse… And it was no different from other names of the era, like Sym.pati.co… DiGG, Reddit, etc etc.

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      9 个月前

      All of those just sound easier to pronounce, even though “sympatico” is kinda longer than necessary. My point is that almost all the Fediverse software has awkward to pronounce names which doesn’t really help with the initial adoption.

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        9 个月前

        I mean, it is what it is… The name is over a decade old, and was likely selected because it sounded “technical”. Friendica came about only a couple of years after facebook opened up for the wider public.

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        9 个月前

        Someone mentioned a name to designate words with two syllables as a good way to name products (Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix), but I can’t find it back.