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Rethink the name. Seriously.
by cutler 3y ago
Rethink the name. Seriously.
- therealfiona 3y agoI LOVE the name. What's the problem?
- grugagag 3y agoI love it too but I could see it hurting some adoption, unless it goes the other way. Scuttlebut is intriguing and a sticky name…
- riquisimo 3y agoMan, I disagree.
- ang_cire 3y agoWhy? If someone will not use an app because it has a silly sounding name, or because they're so immature that "butt" is objectionable to them, I'm happy not to have them bring that attitude into a social space I'm part of.
- nine_k 3y agoThat's fine, but incompatible with popularity. All people are rather different. No matter who you are, the art of popularity is the art of attracting people who are unlike you. Just because most people are unlike you, and unlike each other. Yes, this assumes removing some nice edginess, and appearing slightly generic.
- idle_zealot 3y agoThe whole design of the protocol is anathema to popularity. It's based around syncing posts with users you are in physical proximity to. I doubt the cute name is what's going to hold it back from mainstream adoption.
- gardenhedge 3y agoYou're already on a social space with plenty of people who won't use it because it has a silly name
- ang_cire 3y agoAnd there are many people here whom I am happy not to have to interact with anywhere else. :)
- rrix2 3y agoYeah it should be something serious like The Face Book or Twitter or Tumblr or Orkut or X or something!!
- ssgodderidge 3y ago> "The name, Scuttlebutt, came from sea-slang for gossip. Basically, like a watercooler on a ship, where sailors and pirates go have a yarn." [0] Personally, I respect the effort to stand out in the sea (get it?) of social platforms. [0] https://scuttlebutt.nz/about/ https://scuttlebutt.nz/about/
- nanomonkey 3y agoKinda too late, it's a 10 year old project. Besides, scuttlebutt is the name of the water barrel on a ship, and is synonymous with gossip. As a gossip protocol originally written by someone who lives on a ship, I think it's pretty fitting.
- nine_k 3y agoThis matters little. The majority of potential users live on land and take water from a tap. The subtlety if the naming is lost for them. But the schoolchild-level silliness of it persists and repels.
- dboreham 3y agoI think I understand the weird comments about the name now: you're thinking it has something to do with "derriere". But it doesn't, because the people who came up with the name would never have thought of that. Instead they'd have called it "scuttlearse".
- blisstonia 3y agoIt's a fair comment. The name isn't great. Fortunately scuttlebutt is the protocol, which I guess is fine.
- beardedwizard 3y agoIt's ok, the project never took off. Big barrier to entry, clunky to use, being superseded by better decentralized approaches.
- sleepybrett 3y agoScuttlebutt in america is a very common word used to describe gossip. I love the parallelism between 'scuttlebutt' and 'water cooler talk' .. they both describe gossip and they are both named for people standing around a source of drinking water telling stories.