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Giving this project such a politically charged name is a bit cringey. It could turn some people off who would otherwise be interested. Unless of course you're
by platz 5y ago
Giving this project such a politically charged name is a bit cringey.
It could turn some people off who would otherwise be interested.
Unless of course you're only interested in targeting a more narrow group to begin with. That's ok to, it just potentially limits the reach of the user pool.
For an app whos success will be governed by 'network effects', it helps to cast that net as wide as possible instead of narrowing it.
- kodah 5y agohttps://revolt.chat/about https://revolt.chat/about They're marketing to a privacy aware audience which is, unfortunately these days, political to some.
- platz 5y agoOk having read the about page, it starts to tell a narrative. It's helpful and gives me a better idea about the motivations behind thebproject, but as a brand name you dont get to force everyone to read your /about when they first see the name Revolt. But on the specific issue, consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with, maybe the equivalent of the folks behind Gab, for example.
- uselesscynicism 5y ago>consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with .. the folks behind Gab Gab is a hilarious example because it is a non-federating fork of Mastodon.[0][1] This is especially noteworthy because the ActivityPub "Fediverse" is full of antipathy between camps of users who run Mastodon (more Left) and those who instead run Pleroma (more Right) to the point where you can predict a user's politics by the software their homeserver is running. Is this the future of FOSS that we want? If you support the right of individuals to run social networks, and if you believe in libre software, you have to understand that sometimes people will use the tools you release for free to do things you disagree with. An analogy: if you're a manufacturer of hammers, you have to accept that someone could use your hammer to commit a murder. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/ [1] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork...
- kodah 5y agoAmateur activism across our political spectrum has been a net-negative in my opinion, so I agree, but privacy has no chosen political party or agenda. In that way, I'd caution you from thinking of it "politically" in terms of camps and more "politically" in terms of policy changes needed that both of our parties object to.
- platz 5y agoI have no issue with privacy. The product is not called Privacy. The product is called Revolt.
- alpaca128 5y agoWhen political parties are constantly trying to undermine privacy in most of the world with excuses ranging from terrorism to "think of the children", it's hard to pretend it's not political. That said I don't find "revolt" all that bad. Out of context it's only political if you let it, just like "master" branches aren't a statement about slavery by themselves.
- toiletfuneral 5y agoIf it would make you feel better , just fork it and rename it ‘bootlicker’
- 1MachineElf 5y agoHow come a similarly politically charged name hasn't prevented the wide adoption of Discord?
- platz 5y agobecause the definition of the word discord isn't *politically* charged.
- croes 5y agoHow come Riot changed it's name to Element?
- hammyhavoc 5y agoCame here to say that we adopted Riot once it rebranded to Element.
- opan 5y agoA large part was due to confusion with the company that makes League of Legends, from what I understand.
- jstx1 5y agoYes, it's just not a good name. Revolt sounds very similar to Riot... which was a messenger that got renamed to Element last year - https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/