It’s only Eurocentric in the Western tradition, and even then the names of many stars come from Arabic.
It’s only Eurocentric in the Western tradition, and even then the names of many stars come from Arabic.
I mean, yeah, many celestial bodies take their names from Latin. Like how the proper name of the sun is Sol, which matches solar, the lunar object would be called Luna. Selene feels like a retronym to match other Greek deities, and would be like renaming Earth to Gaia
either of those options is a fair pick given their oldness
Luna would definitely rank over Selene in the Western astronomical tradition. As you say, its name is just The Moon, which is what Luna means in many current day Latin derived languages
I thought it was Luna?
A Dyson Wall… and Proxima Centauri will pay for it!
Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites.
Imagine a worse, less fitting analogy
You can literally spin up your own instance in 20 minutes and see every instance ever if you’d like, it’s a choice and its good to have
xenophobes scared of everything and defederating everyone
Go join a monolithic network if you are not interested in the features of the fediverse.
baby its not xenophobic to defederate, calm down
Ability to choose with whom to federate with is a core concept of the Fediverse
If you don’t want any defederation, join an instance that doesn’t do it.
Sure, but at that point we could rename it anything.