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Good luck getting mainstream acceptance for something that sounds like a furry dating site.

Boss, let's edit our images using GIMP.

No, it's not one of the banned words in the HR guide.. I mean yes it is, but that's not what it means.

GIMP at least has an excuse in the sense that its success doesn't depend on network effects. It can win purely on technical merit.

Social apps on the other hand need network effects to win regardless of how good they are technically. A stupid name there is suicide.

Bumble, what you want to do when dating.

One of the benefits of a standard like Matrix is that the adoption of individual apps is mostly irrelevant.

Curious, which app do you refer to?

Probably referring to bridges (eg: irc <-> matrix, telegram <-> matrix, etc)..

https://matrix.org/bridges/

The parent comment suggested that Matrix would support stories and the first implementation (which I guess could be considered the reference implementation) is called "FluffyChat"...

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