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And worse choice of new name.
Wtf you talking about. Stoats are adorable.
They are but getting a normie friend to join a service called Stoat feels like a non-starter. Revolt/Matrix/Element/Signal are more doable.
try getting them to use a fediverse instance named moist
... I don't need another domain. I don't need another domain. I do NOT need another domain...
To some people it might be a positive
Are your friends adults?
That makes zero sense.
Brand name perception matters a lot 🫤 I wish it didn't, but it does.
And stoats is as awesome as they get as they said
It makes perfect sense. Names are incredibly important to widespread adoption. As are pleasing colors.
Many people don’t know what a Stoat is, or that it’s an animal. A meaningless nonsense word (In the mind of a normie) will not drive them to use it.
So your argument is that people are stupid so they should change the name. That's not very compelling imo. Most tech names are nonsense to average person, yet they succeeded just fine.
It’s not a question of intelligence, it’s a question of recognition and partiality.
That explains why nobody has consulted you before launching a brand.
On the contrary, most successful tech names are very recognizable and attractive to the average person, and the ones that weren’t were less likely to succeed. Facebook, Twitter, InstaGram, Windows, Apple, Amazon, Snapchat, TikTok all are very recognizable words or portmanteaus of descriptive words that are attractive to average users and are meant to convey a specific emotion or feeling. Meanwhile it’s been years since Twitter changed its name to X and yet nobody calls it that, and everybody still calls posts on that platform “Tweets”.
Like, this billion dollar industry doesn’t cease to be so because you personally don’t find it compelling lol.
It is a question of intelligence if you've never heard of a fucking stoat before.
It is not. Stoats are not a very commonly talked about animal species. Their name isn’t even consistent across regions.
I had to look up what a Stoat even was because I only know them as Ermine, and in North America it’s called a short tailed Weasel. It’s not an animal you’re likely to even see much as they are rarely kept in captivity, and aren’t something you’re very likely to see in the wild in NA even though they’re native here. They have precious little pop culture representation either.
Then you're exactly the kind of person I'm talking about. Fucking touch grass.
Yes I am one of the vast majority of people who don’t have a very strong association with one of the several different names for one of the worlds less distinct animals.
And unless Stoat the software is content with appealing only to a few galaxy brained individuals like yourself and dying in obscurity, they would be smart to pick a more marketable name. One that has universal understanding and appeal, very simple concept. Or at least one that sounds better to the ear.
I miss when Element was called Riot.IM, also a stupid lawsuit that never happened but they changed the name to avoid a lawsuit anyway.
I love watching peeps play this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5iFFCwd5w
Although this change for Discord is gonna suck.
This game is such a fucking fun romp.
I like that it has a "secret" ending that if you actually wait around in the waiting room instead of leaving, eventually the Mayor will be ready to see you. I think it's about 15 minutes.
I've watched so many streamers play it that idk if I'd wanna play it myself, but that I didn't know! I love how much love they put into the game as a whole. Never fails to get me a bunch of hearty laughs...
it just reminds me of the old fascist reddit clones, like voat or throat or whatever
they should have renamed it quokkachat
Eh, the more you say it, the more normal it'll sound. Stoat. Like oat. Or like stoked.
"Goo Gewl" isn't exactly a good name...