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Thanks! Easy onboarding is definitely needed. We're all technologists here and we don't mind wonky UX with lacking documentation.

The name Mastodon is unfortunate, Twitter is a better name as Tweeting became a verb, not sure how to verb Mastodon without it becoming a lewd euphemism. "Hey I Mastodonded about that" erhm... you did what now?

How would you go about a rebrand of Mastodon?

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> not sure how to verb Mastodon

Why does everything need to become a verb?

I have not seen people Linuxing or macOSing or iPhoning or Kubernetesing. Some nouns can remain nouns.

Stop trying and just have branding people do it.

It doesn't need to be a verb. Really anything that isn't so coarse would probably be fine. Twitter is not a very good name because it's so feminine, but it's way better. Threads is a perfectly fine name.

Just let branding people do it.

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