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What is Avelon? What is the story behind the name? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m not the dev, so take what I say with a bushel of salt, but Avelon sounds a lot like Avalon, which is an island (probably mythical) that appears in the old British Arthurian legends.

On a surface level the name could be just a mythological link, that starts with an A. Similar to Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, this is exactly right. I was brainstorming names and came up with Avelon - turns out I was actually just remembering the name of the british legend just slightly wrong. Read up on it a bit more, and figured an "island" away from the big social media giants could be a nice metaphor to use in a Lemmy app name. Ended up keeping Avelon (with an E) since I thought it sounded pretty cool and was more unique.