actually why are Mastodon instances not called herds
@Drewry @hauntedlatte but are we Mastodons or are we PART of a Mastodon?
@hauntedlatte actually, why are they not called herds?
@hauntedlatte This reminds me of how uninstalling games on Steam was called "Delete Local Content" for ages because only programmers had ever written the UI copy. :grin:
@hauntedlatte For real though!
@hauntedlatte good point. make it a thing 👍
@hauntedlatte Why is the GNU Social federation not called Hurd? 🤔
@hauntedlatte now we have to stop
@hauntedlatte I feel like this was a critically missed opportunity. Maybe due to Yik Yak "Herds"?
@hauntedlatte a non-Mastodon server is a GNUSocial Herd
@hauntedlatte I don't think they really want the association with gnu/hurd.
@corydodt yeah I realized that after I tooted but gotta get that ｃｏｎｔｅｎｔ ｅｎｇａｇｅｍｅｎｔ
@hauntedlatte One Mastodon instance is the tail, another is a leg, another is a tusk, another is the trunk, another is an ear. No one knows the whole mastodon.
@hauntedlatte that makes so much sense
@hauntedlatte Did mastodons live in herds?
@hauntedlatte That's it. I'm writing a Mastodon book just so I can make this the default term.
@hauntedlatte so as not to be confused with GNU Hurd, probably...
@hauntedlatte It's possible that GNU Herd ruined that name for software devs.
@hauntedlatte They really should be.
@hauntedlatte @nite0wl That is a -very- good point.
@hauntedlatte an instance is a Mastodon. Many instances, a herd.
@hauntedlatte #mastodon Creation of a new Mastodon instance should be called a "De-extinction Event".
I've now seen one person call it a herd in the wild and yes I am taking all of the credit
@hauntedlatte you just called them herds. You can do it again and again. No one is stopping you. There's no TOOT Police. Yet.
@VinceintheBay *lowers glasses* by jove you're right
@hauntedlatte Because the collective noun for instances of Mastodon is a federation. :)
@hauntedlatte Mastodon /instances/ are Mastodons. But clusters of instances /should/ be herds. It's the herdiverse.
Though whether that makes us cells or forage I'm not sure.
@hauntedlatte GNU/herds
@hauntedlatte I love the idea, bu technically speaking wouldn't a herd be a group of instances? As in:
- 1 instance = 1 mastodon = 1 pacyhderm (with many cells: its mastonauts)
- 1 herd = many mastodons; may or may not be the whole of the fediverse
@Garagron@mastodon.social You should ask this Question ,) @hauntedlatte
@hauntedlatte Because GNU Herd is a thing 😂
@hauntedlatte ohmygod.