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0 pointsfreehunter6y ago0 comments

And convincing people to use a service named “scuttle butt”.

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annecdotally, 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/

freehunterOP6y ago

And 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.

kick6y ago

It'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.

iamnothere6y ago

Oh. 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.)

nanomonkey6y ago

That 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?

freehunterOP6y ago

I 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.

detaro6y ago

A word for chatting is somehow unsuitable as a name because you have to say the horrible 4-letter word "butt"?

freehunterOP6y ago

An archaic word that was only chosen because it includes the word “butt”?

wutbrodo6y ago

I 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)

detaro6y ago

Given 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.

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tossAfterUsing6y ago

annecdotally, 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/

freehunterOP6y ago

And that’s fine for you. But it’s not fine for the service.

kick6y ago

iamnothere6y ago

nanomonkey6y ago

That 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?

freehunterOP6y ago

I 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.

detaro6y ago

A word for chatting is somehow unsuitable as a name because you have to say the horrible 4-letter word "butt"?

freehunterOP6y ago

An archaic word that was only chosen because it includes the word “butt”?

wutbrodo6y ago

detaro6y ago

Given 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.

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