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minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours agoFor the average person who doesn’t understand or care about federated systems, “pixelfeed” is probably a better name. It feeds you pixels.
minus-squarecoldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 hours agotbh I always thought of the original name as “being fed by pixels”
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoI’m guessing it’s a pun on both fed meaning “eats, runs on, is powered by” and “federation/fediverse.”
For the average person who doesn’t understand or care about federated systems, “pixelfeed” is probably a better name. It feeds you pixels.
tbh I always thought of the original name as “being fed by pixels”
I’m guessing it’s a pun on both fed meaning “eats, runs on, is powered by” and “federation/fediverse.”