What’s there to understand?

Starting off way too obtuse and disconnected from reality to have a conversation. Later.

I have used others and to me nothing else has the right blend of stability, performance, good defaults, and ability to customize. Boost is best on android.

I think it’s less about ux and more about being confused. People aren’t faking being confused. I’m pretty tech savvy but had to do a double take. Still don’t fully understand the nuances of federation after over a year and a half. I don’t really need to understand all of it though.

I don’t really want them here, but I’d rather them be here than on reddit. Reddit is more toxic than this place and a lot of that comes top down. At least here people can spin off an instance the minute admins/mods act like dicks. There, the culture just gets worse and festers and it contributes to toxicity in the world outside itself. Imagine if the r/theDonald pricks have been ostracized and started their own instance which most instances defederated with quickly.

I fail to see how it matters that a word commonly known as “german” is not directly German but instead is one step removed.

They could have just as easily pulled another easy-to-grok word from German and slightly changed the spelling.

Those arguing about this technicality here are missing the point.

doesn’t make it a more German. So is iceberg.

There is absolutely no way in which this even matters a slight bit. In-fucking-sufferable and entirely self unaware.

And yet I always knew that it came from german and when I looked up the etymology that was confirmed correct. I honestly have no idea why people want to have a “conversation” like this

Not only is the etymology on my side, search engines also easily find several articles saying the company Uber got their name from a German word.

I think you’re splitting hairs and it’s not helpful. I have only ever known “Uber” as a German word and you saying it isn’t one won’t change my or others’ experience of it as such.

Not only is the etymology on my side, search engines also easily find several articles saying the company Uber got their name from a German word.

…I don’t know what point you’re making. The word came from german, and the changing of the letter only goes to my point. The word was easily simplified to be used outside of German.

Are you really going to argue this? Those accent marks aren’t in all languages, which is mainly why they removed them. If you want to claim this isn’t from the German word then you need to explain where it came from.

Yeah, possibly. Depends – if the data is federated between instances (which I assumed) you could have access to the whole world’s market and it would still be useful if there was a feature that allowed you filter out locations you’re not currently interested in.

Etymology From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche’s use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super and hyper.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uber

No one is saying you cannot have a good German name. Uber is an American company. Shit company but great name. Comes from German and translates to other linguistic communities fairly well

I just took a list at some instances and was confused. Is there not a location-specific aspect? When I selected “Local” I got nothing. The only use I had for FB marketplace was buying/selling things locally. Like as a craigslist replacement. Not seeing that on these sites, unfortunately.

But telling a friend about this starts with the name. Simple names are easier. And that would just start with making it short. Single syllable being best.

Op has a point. Even English names that succeed internationally are somewhat bound by the ability of speakers of other languages to spell and pronounce the name. Y’all are here acting like what they’re saying is hateful or something…

Sms and email are not remotely the same

The thing I hate worst about Lemmy is that a lot of people are dickheads about their opinion, which often is barely different from the persons’ opinions you see them aggressively shitting on. In other cases the opinions are pretty different but start with the same basic premise, yet some users see no common ground at all. It’s become really disheartening honestly. There are probably more than 30 users like that which I had to block for my own sanity