Two minutes ago, I decided to clean up the post-Reddit mess on my phone.

I uninstalled RIF, because I use Wefwef now.

I uninstalled kbin, because I use Wefwef now.

Lots of icons disappeared from my launcher. Oops.

In my haste, I failed to notice that kbin is not an app, but actually a browser app like Wefwef. So I did not uninstall kbin - in fact I uninstalled Firefox! And with that, I lost all my launcher shortcuts, all my open tabs, and all my browser apps ( including kbin but also including Wefwef).

I really don’t know all the stuff I lost that way but hey, if. I don’t miss it then maybe that’s okay?

  • dismalnow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The name is so off-putting.

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    I’m one of the more whimsical dudes I know and I don’t mind disagreement so I’m pretty open to whatever - but please tell me why jubjub.wingdang is something you want to see several hundred times a day.

    Am I missing something? Does wefwef actually mean something, or is it just typical techbrand nonsense? We have gone PAST Idiocracy at this point.

    For some background… I’m a grumpy fucker. wefwef can do better. This is an interview about how the brands in Idiocracy were designed.

    I’m sick and tired of bullshit neosyllabic names that a baby would make:

    • Goo-gle
    • Et-sy
    • Zyn-ga
    • Kag-gle
    • Hu-lu
    • Ven-mo
    • Ya-hoo

    I don’t want to “eeh-ohh” or “lee” your goddamn name:

    • Branch.eeo
    • Keen.eeo
    • Card.eeo
    • Cook.eeo
    • Fluent.eeo
    • Parse.lee
    • Visual.lee

    Dropped vowels are equally annoying to me:

    • Flickr
    • Tumblr
    • Grindr
    • Scribd
    • HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      It’s just a name, so does it really matter? Sometimes people just want to make a good app and sometimes they want to be funny and name it something entirely nonsensical. Maybe you don’t like the name, and that’s okay! I love that name for precisely the same reasons, and it’s just fun to say.