If so, kinda lame imo.

  • TransComrade69
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    4 years ago

    Damn, this is your first take that I want to downvote and I'm half tempted to enable them just to do it.

    Personally, I find wanting the site to stay named after some shitlib (at best) podcast of reactionary doomer liberals that we're hardly associated with at this point to be pretty lame. Couldn't be me.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      At least on the old sub, the podcast itself was often a topic a conversation. Here, I mean we don't even bring it up to criticize it much, if ever. I'm all for a name change. I thought the "Chapo" name was purely functional - so users of the old sub could find this place. That was over half a year ago now, time to head out on our own.

      • TransComrade69
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        4 years ago

        Hexbear.net is pretty rad and gives off big vintage vibes, imo. 😍

          • TransComrade69
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            4 years ago

            As opposed to...?? What the fuck is a Reddit? What's an Instagram? It's all meaningless. They're all made up words, lmfao.

              • Koa_lala [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Discord for example started off as a slack clone. Then it evolved into its own thing. We literally had no time to prepare so we went with lemmy. Now we are slowly developing it into our own thing. What we are working on is already a departure of reddit's up/downvote system. Things just take time to develop and to mature.

                By the way. Remember digg? Reddit started out as a digg clone.

                As for the name. It really just isn't that important. Coca cola only sounds right because you're accustomed to it. People literally always hate on new logos, but it eventually everyone will just get used to them. The connection still has to be made to the 'brand'. That's why it doesn't seem right in the beginning. It works like that with names too.

            • ssjmarx [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Reddit's a better name then "hexbear" lmao. It's one of those Web 2.0 take a normal word and respell it names, Read it, Reddit.

              Hexbear is a forced meme and this site's already cringy enough without being named after it.

              • Koa_lala [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Okay, then leave if it's that big of a deal to you? Nobody is forcing you to be here.