Should we re-brand the “rest of the Fediverse” as “Mastodon+”?
@fediversenews I don’t know how Mastodon gGmbh would feel about Calckey or Friendica being referred to as “Mastodon+”.
But it intrigues me.
Someone is going to seriously take Akkoma, bolt it to Mastodon’s front end, and sell it as “Mastodon+”.
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social They're pretty serious about defending their trademark, aren't they?
And, I mean, as they should be. They don't want to lose it.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews It also intrigues me how everything is mastodon, just like every song is named Megalovania
@atomicpoet getting "this image requires a gold account" vibes here
@atomicpoet Pleroma used to do that with Glitch's variant of the Mastodon front end
huge improvement over the native Pleroma front end, tbh
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I think the enhanced versions of Mastodon feels more like Mastodon+(+), while Calckey or Frendica would be Rust or Go.
(Trying out calckey, to see how it goes. But it’s feels like a much “more” product. If I really like it I hope my server could convert over to it in the future. I’m not terribly married to Mastodon, the fediverse is the secret sauce.)
@atomicpoet @fediversenews They own the trademark, so....
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social
irl i have always done that tbh
And here I thought we were talking about how to help random prospective users grok the existence of micro/mini blogging options beyond Mastodon in the Fediverse.
If it might hurt someone's feelings for a few minutes, I guess we should just drop it...