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Comment by retromagik

3 days ago

Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers"

It's a cute name, but considering how combative developers can be about naming, I think it should have been more clever than cute.

If 'dev' is developer, 'null' makes me think it's for worthless developers, or for things that developers don't care about.

  • Well it is a social media site, isn’t that where everybody puts the things they don’t care about?