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god damn why do so many federated services have such awful fucking names that feel disgusting to say
friendica sounds like a strain of bacteria that eats your ligaments
https://xkcd.com/856/
TROCHEES, MOTHER FUCKERS, USE THEM IN YOUR FUCKING BRANDING.
FACEBOOK. YOUTUBE. WHATSAPP. TIKTOK. SNAPCHAT. REDDIT. DISCORD. TUMBLR.
TWITTER before it turned to utter shit partially because its name was changed to "X".
Hell even LEMMY is a Trochee and I think that's part of why it's managed to stand up to reddit this well!
Even the big names that AREN'T trochaic get truncated to trochees! INSTA! PIN-TREST!
They try to truncate Mastodon to Mast-o but people keep thinking THAT'S a reference to a disease too.
fucking hell
I'M MAD BECAUSE I WANT FEDVERSE SHIT TO SUCCEED AND IT'S LEAVING THIS PERFECTLY ACCESSIBLE LOW HANGING FRUIT TO ROT ON THE VINE WHEN IT NEEDS EVERY LAST FUCKING SCRAP OF HELP IT CAN GET
the best time to change it was before it was made.
the second best time is RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.
and the longer they delay, the more painful it's going to be getting passed up by BLUESKY.
What is a trochee? I looked it up but I don't understand
Trochee refers to a specific structure and rhythm found in some words within the English lexicon.
It's about how many syllables there are, and which syllable(s) are accentuated.
Trochees are two-syllable words where the first syllable is accentuated. The word "English" is itself a trochee. Like the other social media names I mentioned: TWIT-ter, FACE-book, DIS-cord, YOU-tube
They're generally snappy and fun to say, especially to string together (such as in the XKCD comic I linked)
You can categorize every word in english as fitting some pattern of rhythm for its count of syllables
Mastodon has three syllables with stress (accentuation) on the first. MAST-o-don.
Its metrical categorization is called Dactylic, like these words:
BI-cy-cle, TYP-ic-al, EL-eph-ant, PO-et-ry, MUR-mur-ing, END-less-ly.
Fascinating! Do you know a good place I can learn more about this type of stuff?