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These are not simpler terms. They are LinkedInification terms.
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Members of Web3 need to do better in eliminating complex jargon & using simpler terms: DAO ➔ Digital Cooperative Metaverse ➔ Digital Universe Yield Farming ➔ Maximizing Yield Highly Decentralized ➔ Highly Secure NFTs ➔ Digitally Authenticated Assets Any other suggestions?
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Thinking more about this, LinkedInification is a kind of attempted semantic commodification. Name a vacuous official-sounding category around a unique thing with personality to claim authority over it.
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Like microblogging was a singleton category with twitter as it’s only credible member for a long time. You had yammer type things but afaict they failed to beef up the category. Microblogging only became a real category after Mastodon appeared.
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Until a sui generis thing actually evolves into an n>2 set, it just sounds like small mindedness to try and rename it.
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🤣 maybe Though in this case the term is intended as a pejorative, so maybe the logic is reversed and we do want branded. Express envy via semantic commodification, contempt via semantic differentiation. The asshole heuristic of meta-naming.
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Replying to @vgr
We need a non-branded version of Linkedinification