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First picture I found on Google for each because I'm lazy but there they are with pictures attached.
Piefed
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Mastodon
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Most of these names are absolutely atrocious.
To be fair, are there any social media platforms that don't have a kind of stupid name?
Its one of the two hard problems of computer science after all
Most of the big ones at least have some kind of coherence behind their naming scheme.
The open source stuff is like: prehistoric hairy elephant, misspelled name of animal used as a metaphorical comparison for people doing dumb shit in a mob which seems to be insulting it's users, and then some random words slapped onto the word fed - none of which sound good.