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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I suggest DARTIS. Let me explain.

    If it wasn’t trademarked by the BBC I would definitely opt for TARDIS, the hybrid of time machine and spacecraft. I am no lawyer, so I cannot tell if this is a possibility after all.

    However, it ticks so many boxes:

    • Reference to space → Fediverse
    • Reference to timeline(s) → Mastodont
    • Bigger on the inside → Lemmy
    • Tribute to a crazy fun SF series
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    I personally have a weakness for a reference to pop culture (e.g., like the programming language Python is a tribute to the British comedy group Monty Python).

    To be safe, we might use an anagram instead: DARTIS. As a bonus we will have a nice story behind the name.




  • Just tried it in my inbox with your comment, and the effect is exactly what I meant. I’m not so sure though if it is that easy to implement. Internally, I guess every post should have two flags: ‘hide’ and ‘read’. It should be possible to hide unread posts and at the same time show read posts (but also hide other read posts, if that’s what you want). This might mean an extra column in the internal database of the app, or however that works.