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Free software has some glib naming conventions (feddit.uk)
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[โ€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's called Jellyfin because "streaming" is something water does,

The rest of it is diffcult to know for sure but fins guide you and jelly is flexible, and Jellyfin is a fork of Emby - so maybe they were going with "[e]N comes after [e]M alphabetically?"

Here's where the service was named:

https://github.com/joshuaboniface/Emby/issues/2

[โ€“] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Good explanation. I'd say that's still a lot of processing for our noggins to quickly adapt to a framework of mind to comprehend all that to make sense of it.

I still like the name and it does make since after it's all spelled out.