Calling it GNU/Mastodon is like renaming Apache Web Server to be CERN/Apache just because CERN httpd did it first. How could anyone advocate that in good faith.
They really should rename Microsoft Edge to be Mosaic/Edge y'know it's only fair.
If you want to talk about the OStatus fediverse then talk about the OStatus fediverse but none of this GNU/Mastodon crap lmao.
Anyway, tbf as an actual software semantics critique, Mastodon is server software and not in-itself a web standard or social network. So it would be a valid point to argue that instead of saying "join Mastodon!" people should be saying "join the fediverse! (on a server which implements Mastodon extensions, aka a Mastodon server, aka Mastodon)"
Like tbf "Use Firefox!" is a pretty roundabout way of saying "Get online!", even if Firefox *is* a better web browser than IE.
why am I talking about this I just got out of the shower I'm sorry
@u2764 Semantics are important.
@u2764 On the other hand the technical goes hand in hand with the social. Joining Mastodon also means, at least loosely, joining a node associated with a mastodon.social-influenced culture, which is a pretty distinctive subset of the fediverse right now.
@u2764 we should be calling it NeXT/MacOS
@colon_three @u2764 Actually it's MIT/ATT&T/Berkeley/NeXT/MacOS. Precision is important, you know.
@u2764 I love how it makes conversation easier, as in "i like my Xerox/MacOS/Gnome 3 better than that Xerox/Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 ya know"
@u2764 someone formerly at NCSA is clenching their fists so hard right now
@u2764 AT&T/GNU