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No, it doesn't.
The target market is primarily geeks.
Sounds like your coworkers should expand their horizons. Libre is a common word in (at least) 2 widely spoken languages.
Not when you're naming a product. You think its hard to get people to use Lemmy, imagine trying to sell them on "Federated Link Aggregater Website."
As does Google, Instagram, and Tiktok but they at least managed to pick silly sounding names that don't sound like a child trying to describe a loose bowel movement.