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Friendica (open source facebook alternative) releases version 2023.12 with the ability to curate feeds and more (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] errer 52 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The name of this product is terrible, sounds like some disease

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago

Welcome to open source softwares!

[–] SendMePhotos 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Judge me. Here are some names I can think of:

Connect (or some dumb spelling like connekt because it's trendy)
SocCenter (social center)
Open Doors (or some variant)

I'm out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Connect is pretty generic and used in a million other places. There is no spelling variation unused.

SocCenter is worse then Friendica to my ears.

Open Doors sounds like a suicide prevention group.

Maybe it needs an acronym of some sort instead...

[–] webjukebox 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I may be weird, but I like Friendica.

Friend + Ica

Friends, friendly

Like erotica, but friendly.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Erotica with Friends" may pigeonhole it a bit. It'll become every other "friend" making app full of dick pics.

Let's just call it Make Important Life Friends and leave it as an acronym.

[–] webjukebox 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why would you call it makimlif?

/S.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

:'(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're supposed to pronounce it "May kill if"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mmmmm.... SoakCenter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SocCenter sounds like sock center, your application of choice for everything socks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

openfloat openflow openfast openflight

[–] Old_Fat_White_Guy 2 points 10 months ago

How about Boat4Sale? I mean realistically in 5 years or less that's what most socials devolve into anyway....

[–] skeezix 1 points 10 months ago

SocialPoops

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How about Socialite?

[–] vermyndax 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That one might be wrapped up in copyright. There was an app called Socialite a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Damn. Okay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't think it was that bad til I heard something good like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Same reaction. I was like, "Hold on... Friendica sounds like a Tata Vehicle with integrated AI features" 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At least it used to be spelled with a k instead of c, so it looked like the name of an old Eastern bloc brand of tractor or something.

[–] RealBot 1 points 10 months ago

In a lot of balkan languages this is similar to how you would say girl friend (we spell it frendica) so it's kind of interesting