Somebody needs to put this guy in charge of all the branding elements.
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Draegur@lemm.ee 1 week ago
also rebrand it from Mastodon to Trunky.
- Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, etc. it’s part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
- Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it’s cute.
- A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
- Change “favorite” to “trumpet” (as in trumpeting praise), again it’s trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than “favoriting” which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
- keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called “Remembering” (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)
Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 days ago
While I’m not entirely convinced that Trunky is the best choice of names, I do agree with your overall reasoning. Mastodon was always an awkward choice for a name and probably hurt adoption quite a bit, despite all the cute elephant cartoons people ended up making. Even Pleroma (an alternative server implementation compatible with ActivityPub) sounds cooler than Mastodon, despite also being three syllables long.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Agreed on all counts, except that rebrands rarely succeed without boatloads of cash behind them. And even then not always.
I’ve heard (and experienced to a certain extent) that a rebrand is a sign of the beginning of the end for a product.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop
You’ve got to be taking the piss, right? This is serious software used by adults, not the colourful ride-on luggage for toddlers!
spikesforeyes@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
It’s not about it being for adults or for children. Mastodon is indeed a weird name, and people who have never heard of this platform with lots of things on their mind are more likely to dismiss it if it doesn’t immediately capture their attention / they don’t immediately know what it means.
While this naming “issue” is definitely on the bottom of priorities, I do find it worth mentioning, if only just for the sake of conversation. Plus, it’s kind of interesting to think about how something that, at first, doesn’t seem that important might influence the success of a product.
Draegur@lemm.ee 5 days ago
When I told my best friend about mastodon, it misimprinted on her brain in a flash as “walrus chat” and now she can’t for the life of her remember its actual name.
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Also it should make a lil trumpet sound when you “trumpet” something
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I can’t get with that as a person who has sound off always
natecox@programming.dev 1 week ago
Too damn close to tankie (TANK-ie), hard pass.
astro_ray@piefed.social 6 days ago
rename boosting to re-tootin
I would say reserve re-tootin for when quote post lands on mastodon
Draegur@lemm.ee 6 days ago
yes, that’s what boosting is on mastodon. see how ineffectual their ‘boosting’ nomenclature is? that’s why they should be renamed.
astro_ray@piefed.social 6 days ago
Ooh sorry, I thinking like Misskey. In the English translation, they use note and renote to replace tweet and re-tweet from Twitter era
gon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
There’s actually an Android Mastodon client called Tusky, which I think sounds really nice.
I really know nothing about this stuff >///< thank you for your input!