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[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing them. Looking at the thread and the author's responses, it doesn't seem like he's open to changing the name. Not sure if that's off to a good start, but we'll see...

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[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

He got convinced, its now Auxolotl!

https://github.com/auxolotl/

Theres going to be an official reevaluation once the governance has finished bootstrapping.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

That's definitely better! 👍

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