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I've heard a lot of people want to change app names. Which I'm totally fine with! I've heard a lot of love for the name "Voyager"

So, thoughts? Do you prefer renaming? Do you like the name "Voyager"? Any other good ideas?

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[–] timespace 90 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I like Voyager! Much better than Wefwef.

I could also see LEM for Lunar Excursion Module, the technical name of the lunar lander during the Apollo missions (a nice nod to Apollo app). Also has the benefit of being similar to Lemmy.

[–] Drunemeton 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmy Excursion Module!

That has a very nice ring to it.

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[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 18 points 2 years ago

My vote for LEM. Short, crisp, and fun.

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[–] Wednesday 75 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Voyager is ok, but I do like Lunar. Lunar for Lemmy has such a good ring to it.

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[–] ThatGirlKylie 72 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Deecoder 65 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I quite like Voyager continuing Apollo’s space program theme.

Another option in tribute to Apollo is “Delphi”.

Delphi is the site of the Temple of Apollo and was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi.

As well as the links to Apollo, Delphi’s history is of a community sanctuary and a central source of wisdom.

The term Delphi is more unique than Voyager so it will be more searchable and should be easier to secure a domain name.

Here are a few interesting quotes from the Delphi Temple of Apollo wiki:

The Temple of Apollo, was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi. The temple and sanctuary at large were dedicated to one of the major Greek deities, Apollo.

Within the ancient Greek world, Delphi was considered the center of the universe, marked by the omphalos, or "navel", of the Earth that was located in Apollo's sacred temple. The Temple of Apollo at Delphi was perceived as an incredibly sacred site, considered a major center of ancient Greek religious practice and belief as well as a place intimately connected to the gods.

The exterior of the temple was also decorated with metopes, with five major depictions of gods and heroes being victorious over monsters, a mirroring of Apollo's defeat of Python during the mythological founding of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

The priestesses of Apollo, known as the Pythia, served as the oracle for the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Greeks and non-Greeks alike would go to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi from across the Mediterranean and beyond to consult the Pythia on a variety of different topics, ranging from the state level like the establishment of new colonies to the personal level like marriage, children, and health.

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[–] PlutoniumAcid 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Please take this vote for Voyager. It's a nice nod to Apollo, and it is a real word that people are familiar with.

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[–] redballooon 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

wefwef is unique, easy to remember and easy to type. If you search for it, it’s already on page 1.

You hit all the markers for a good brand. That will be hard to recreate with an ancient god name.

Keep it.

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[–] Thwompthwomp 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m gonna vote for wefwef over voyager. It’s much more unique and googleable. Voyager is gonna turn up Star Trek and a bunch of other generic stuff. Go for something unique!!

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[–] gornar 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Voyager works, literally anything other than wefwef

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[–] Mdamon41 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I personally am down for the name change. Voyager sounds much more iconic and is easier to pass on verbally than wef wef. It’s also better to make such a change as early as possible to avoid confusion for newcomers.

[–] aeharding 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The verbal part is probably my biggest gripe about wefwef. I love it otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, I like the name wefwef! It is a perfectly fine name, it's unique to your project, granting you immediate recogniza- and googlability, and honestly, I don't understand most people advocating for a change. God forbid we had an app or service name that was a bit fun and unique for once! No, let's change the project name just as it's getting popular, confusing everyone and hurting your Google rank, just to have another bland and boring name instead that's completely forgettable and shared by hundreds of other things! Are most of these commenters, like, 12, and still at an age where it's very very important that your friends perceive you as using only what's a child's idea of "cool" stuff? I honestly can't think of any other reason. Name it Awesome Monster App then!

So, no, in short keep it at wefwef! Lowercase and fun pronunciation and all! And for next year's April Fool's, announce a big name change, and then reveal that name to be "weewee", just to fuck with all the haters. Wefwef is the best app/service name in years!

Just my two cents.

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[–] simo 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wefwef is kinda silly but it has the SEO for it, nothing else on the net will not be the app right?

If I googled voyager I’m picturing some Star Trek results n other random shit (thinking of new people googling or searching the App Store)

Phoebus is cool, but might run into generic SEO and like Tildes……’howd ya say it IRL? Feeebus?? Foe-bus’

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[–] talou 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

wefwef is memorizable, but I'd like to know what it stands for

[–] aeharding 53 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I’d like to know what it stands for

literally nothing. It's a name I came up with out of pure laziness: it's where my fingers rest on the keyboard and I can type it one-handed 😂

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Good you can add a slogan: wefwef - save your right hand for more important tasks ;-)

Honestly I like the name wefwef. It is easily searchable especially when it is not exactly easy to search things across the Fediverse.

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[–] ClarkDoom 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Voyager is great!

I also like the idea of “shuttle” because that’s the program that came after Apollo in NASA.

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[–] c15co 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Changing now would not be a good idea. There’s a bunch of Apollo users looking for a new home (I’m in this group) and we’re all hearing about how great wefwef is.

Changing the name risks confusing people and missing new users.

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[–] LunchEnjoyer 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] paulallen 25 points 2 years ago

What about Phoebus, the Roman name for Apollo?

[–] UdeRecife 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wefwef is weirdly arresting. I know not what it means, but it has a ring to it that makes it unique.

Voyager is just meh. More of the same.

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[–] SgtAStrawberry 24 points 2 years ago

I like wefwef it is unique, fitting and you already have brand requisition.

Voyager is fine but extremely generic and quite boring. You also have to fight for search results with a lot bigger and more famous players sharing the name.

[–] morgonfrisyr 24 points 2 years ago

I think wefwef is original and fun. Keep it!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

"Athena". Same mythology theme as Apollo.

Functionality is what will keep people but having a better name, and establishing this as a spiritual successor to Apollo, will help get people through the door.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

wefwef is decent, it's already got some tractions and recognitions, the SEO is already there as well. The logo on the other hand can use some works.

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[–] theangryseal 23 points 2 years ago

I like voyager. I’m for it.

The name wefwef is silly but that’s fine with me too. It’s probably silly because I don’t get it.

You could call it TitFart and I’d be stoked as fuck that it exists.

[–] rayrven 22 points 2 years ago

+1 for Voyager

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wefwef is just fine.

I mean Lemmy is named after Lemmywinks, the gerbil that went up Mr. Slave’s ass in South Park, so Wefwef is a great choice in comparison.

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[–] Mdamon41 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I think a bigger concern would be that Voyager already exists as a Crypto App with a significant amount of downloads.

In the spirit of Apollo, other possible names could be Artemis, Soyuz, Phoebus, Orion, Helios, etc. There’s no shortage of space programs/deities to pick from.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Am I the only one who doesn't know what wefwef stands for?

[–] Caketaco 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe the Dev said it isn’t an acronym, it’s just where he found his hands placed on his keyboard one day, the WEF keys.

I did ask GPT-4 to make an acronym for it anyways, and got:

W- Web

E- Enhanced

F- Fediverse

W- Webapp

E- Explorer

F- Framework

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[–] Protegee9850 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Change it if you want but “Voyager” sounds like some corporate nothing app named by bean pushers and commitees.

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[–] isthisthingon 19 points 2 years ago

Team wefwef represent! Uniqueness is hard to come by. Let’s not blend into everything else by changing it!

[–] chikaygo 19 points 2 years ago

Vote for keeping wefwef. It’s kitschy and odd and unique.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think wefwef is a silly name and I’m surprised that so many people in the comment section like it, because I find the name to be cringeworthy (sorry).

But of course, I will still continue to use this app regardless of what it’s called, just like I still use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, despite it having a ridiculous name lol.

[–] Thunder_Caulk 17 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Having a silly and unique name helps the app in peoples memory retention. Imagine if it was edgy but forgettable. Nobody will remember it and it won't stand out amongst the multitude of lemmy apps being developed at the moment.

Wewef also invoke curiosity.

"What the hell is a wefwef?"

*searches google

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[–] moosh 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Absolutely. WTF is “wefwef”?

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[–] lach 19 points 2 years ago

If yes, maybe something to think about doing further down the track when there’s not a huge amount of migration. Every post directing new users to wefwef will become obsolete and so the app will be harder to find.

I personally love the name wefwef.

[–] Dick_Justice 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like WefWef. like someone else mentioned, it makes me think of a little puppy learning to growl or bark, lol. Mostly though, its6 unique, easy to type, and gloriously well suited to finding via search engines. If you google "wefwef", the top result is your app's Github project, and the next few results are about the app as well. If you change to something like "Voyager", theres an awful lot of competition for those search results. It'll get buried under results about the space project and Star Trek. On a personal level aside from that, I'd vote for staying wefwef myself.

[–] instamat 16 points 2 years ago

Lyre. Lyre for Lemmy. Apollo played a lyre and it’s a cool sounding word.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What’s the story behind wefwef?

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[–] mook71 15 points 2 years ago

i like wefwef

[–] k0mprssd 15 points 2 years ago

i like wefwef i think its unique and quirky

[–] annabanana 15 points 2 years ago

I love Voyager! I think it’s a great name for an Apollo inspired app.

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