Taiwan and China have different writing systems.

They’re not THAT different. In fact, they both used to use the same system, but mainland China simplified a bunch of characters to combat illiteracy and make writing easier while Taiwan did not. The pronunciation did not change however and they can still understand each other.

They smoking dope down there

Thank you, much a-brie-ciated.

Munich tried this 20 years ago. They reversed that decision in 2017.

Don’t be such a sour kraut

While I’m not entirely convinced that Trunky is the best choice of names, I do agree with your overall reasoning. Mastodon was always an awkward choice for a name and probably hurt adoption quite a bit, despite all the cute elephant cartoons people ended up making. Even Pleroma (an alternative server implementation compatible with ActivityPub) sounds cooler than Mastodon, despite also being three syllables long.