Gregory's Serversuper cool to see that @Cochise set up a #Brazilian #Smithereen instance at https://plural.masdivago.cc/Cochise
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@hisham_hm Smithereen is a VK clone by a Russian developer. What is unpronounceable about it?  @liaizon I'm not alone in the sentiment: https://plural.masdivago.cc/posts/41243 I didn't say it was "unpronounceable", but I can clearly see that it is tricky for people who are not fluent in English. A Portuguese speaker who doesn't speak English would definitely have a hard time with this name; I imagine it's the same for many languages. Take in contrast names which are made of simple A1-level words: face-book, blue-sky... (1/2)  @hisham_hm @liaizon @Cochise naming things is one of the two hardest problems in computer science. The other two being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. It's named after a fictional social network from Black Mirror. I initially copied the logo as-is, but ended up redrawing it twice since to make it look nicer, and chose a different shade of green. Later I realized it's also a good name because "a smithereen" is a tiny part of something larger, the fediverse in this case.    |
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ooh, an old-school-Facebook clone! interesting
(side grumbling: some FOSS projects really don't spend a lot of time thinking about picking names that are easy to pronounce/understand for international audiences, right? Smithereen, SecureScuttleButt...)