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From my experience on Scuttlebutt and other decentralized/alternative social medias, thousands will try something out just to kick the tires; it's staying, cont
by nanomonkey 7y ago
From my experience on Scuttlebutt and other decentralized/alternative social medias, thousands will try something out just to kick the tires; it's staying, contributing and utilizing the tool for things it wasn't intended for that really matters.
- freehunter 7y agoAnd convincing people to use a service named “scuttle butt”.
- tossAfterUsing 7y agoannecdotally, my attention isn't usually held for long by people who are unwilling to engage with a service because of it's weird name... https://scuttlebutt.nz/ https://scuttlebutt.nz/
- freehunter 7y agoAnd that’s fine for you. But it’s not fine for the service. Technically anyone can use the dating service Christian Mingle. But you might not find a lot of atheists or Jewish people on there, simply because of the name and the implication of the people who would use a service with that name.
- type0 7y agoWhat do you mean "Scuttle Butt" is a perfect name for a dating service, "Christian Minglë" is also awesome name, I hope someone start a service like that /s
- kick 7y agoIt's not a "service." They owe you nothing, and they don't need you to use it for them to keep using it. Especially given you aren't the target audience, all that really happens is you become a waste of bandwidth for anyone hosting a public peer.
- nanomonkey 7y agoThat being said, the protocol is called scuttlebutt (which means gossip, or water cooler) and all the clients have more palatable names like Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfoo, etc. Fortunately, the protocol name is almost a filtering function that removes anyone so immature as to be put off by the name. The rest embrace the name, who doesn't like a good butt?
- freehunter 7y agoI probably wouldn’t use it anyway because the way the name is defended online makes it likely that I wouldn’t enjoy the company of the service’s user base.
- iamnothere 7y agoOh. Name bikeshedding again. Funny, people had the same criticisms about Twitter, yet it doesn't seem to be a problem now. And what the hell is a Google? (No, not a googol, which is the correct spelling.)
- detaro 7y agoA word for chatting is somehow unsuitable as a name because you have to say the horrible 4-letter word "butt"?
- freehunter 7y agoAn archaic word that was only chosen because it includes the word “butt”?
- detaro 7y agoGiven the history of SSB, it seems quite unlikely that's the case. Originally developed by and for someone living on a boat, they used a nautical term to name the project.
- wutbrodo 7y agoI wouldn't extrapolate the the level of immaturity it takes to make that connection to whoever named the service. The last time I giggled at hearing the word butt as part of a larger word or phrase was probably the second grade (cigarette butts, pork butt, etc)
- thephyber 7y agoEven Facebook had the Games platform to create gravity and staying power... but only for a few years until FB turned off the spigot of free viral News Feed spam to friends of the game player.
- josinalvo 7y agoJust watched the video about scuttlebutt. To confirm: a copy of my messages and images is permanently stored in my friend´s and my friend´s of friend´s diaries (up until the point where they delete them, I presume)