gonna be hard going mainstream with a name like "phuks", unfortunately. i.e. "i posted on reddit" "i posted on lemmy" ... "i posted on phuks" sounds a little nsfw.
It's only the package name. The platform could be different. But I agree re the name
People might want to avoid having the same thing happen with a reddit clone 10-20 years in the future. Federation allows communities to decide their own fate instead of having decisions handed out from on high
Sure, but only nerds will use them (not necessarily a bad thing) and will never go mainstream because of the difficulty to set up and search. Monolithic site like Reddit don't have that issue at all, you log in and away you go. Until someone makes federation that easy, I only see a Reddit replacement being of similar design and composition to Reddit.
Email is federated and everyone manages to use it just fine. It's possible the UX can be improved, in which case I'd invite you to contribute.
Throat looks okayish but rDrama has the same issue that multiple reddit clones have, in that it cloned the godawful negative-space nightmare new layout instead of the classic, functional one.
I know in the context of Lemmy this is an unfair criticism, but for the 99.99% of Reddit users not technical enough, or technical enough but not motivated enough, to run this software on their own any replacement needs to be an actual running site and not OSS that helps you set up a site.
Gotta ask the users who decided on it. It could be as simple as "it popped up first on google".
FWIW, I heard of Lemmy loosely before this (But I have spent a lot of time looking at alternatives to reddit). I heard of Throat as well be never browsed it. Never heard of rDrama.