Am I the only one noticing it about kbin's name?
Am I the only one noticing it about kbin's name?
kbin sounds a lot like kabin, or かびん／花瓶, which means vase in Japanese.
kbin sounds a lot like karabin, which means rifle in Polish.
Yeah ernest seems to be polish and the polish kbin instance is karab.in. Still it’s kind of a weird name for a link aggregator
Ernest, the kbin developer has addressed this:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/344/What-is-Kbin-Join-the-Fediverse#entry-comment-969
It's a play for unix filesystem's layout -
/sbin-> kbin. Can't recall the post, but that was answered by Ernest himself.There is even the folder icon as the logo to make this link clearer.
I think it's pretty safe to say that the two terms are unrelated, and that most people on a non-Japanese-speaking community would not make that same connection.
Vasebook?
To be fair, naming an app for kbin as "Vase" would be pretty dope.
ケビン is closer, which is just the transliteration of Kevin.