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RE: Name YOUR decentralized social network?

in #cryptocurrencies6 years ago (edited)

Tribyoot is very creative and probably by a wide margin your best name suggestion so far. Unfortunately it’s already taken:

And there’s at least two flaws:

  1. When I first saw, I didn’t get ‘tribute’ from it. I only saw ‘tribe’ in some weird portmanteau. Tribalism is a negative concept. You’re relying on phonetics. It’s very pigeonholed to Millennial Ycombinator geek fashion naming and thus would not mean anything to most Asians for example.

  2. I don’t like the word ‘tribute’. It’s pigeonholed conceptually to patronage, advocacy, and idealistic politics. It’s more of a Western disease (or at least we’re the leaders and extreme examples of the disease) that doesn’t naturally convey so well in for many in the rest of the world where meritocracy and inequality reins. So it’s basically apropos only as a replacement for the Patrǝons idea I suggested. I would prefer the more direct, less politicized, and professional term for ‘patronage’ than geek fashion naming which mixes in a leaning conceptually towards advocacy politics.

Btw, most of the names we’re thinking of are not maximally appealing to Chinese for example. Interestingly I discovered that many South Americans refer to WhatsApp as ‘wasap’, lol.

...then, yes, I'd agree for the "serious" cornucopia dApps. So the challenge still remains for the more popular appeal dApps, where perhaps Realms would still be in the running for the the less serious, variety and entertainment-based group containing the YouTube clone, streaming and gaming apps?

Uncommons could apply to everything because of the association with ‘uncommon’, i.e. eclectic. Even the Filipinas like the name because they think they can find unique things there.

But I think Realms would be better fit for the gaming (although still also like the name Immortal for gaming). It seems to be a horrible name for a video sharing site. Also doesn’t seem fit to music/audio either.

For the video site, the most compelling USPs and implications of decentralization would be “no ads”, “no censorship” and “more paradigms for content interaction” (e.g. marking up the video, video responses, live group chat, etc). We should try to think of a name for it that can rival Youtube.

Check out this gamification of live streaming on Twitch:

So if you want to get his attention while he is live streaming, you need to tip $10.

That tipping gamification makes me think a token name such as funbits or juju might be more apropos. Note we must prevent smart contracts from creating these “colored coins” tokens backed by locked-up main ledger tokens, as they could have advantages such as locking up the backed ledger tokens for some (if not all of the) staking benefits¹ whilst the “colored coins” token being spendable+tradeable while my intention for pump-amentals is locked up ledger tokens aren’t (or at least not more than once). Their tradeoff being that they’d not be accepted for transaction fees, possibly not be capable of anonymous transactions and be less widely accepted than ledger tokens (i.e. not funbits tokens wouldn’t be fungible with juju tokens for the period of the lockup). We could design it such that users are forced to convert their ledger tokens to these “colored coins” at a market exchange rate, but then there would be no incentive to obtaining them other than being required for use of some features of some dApps. Otherwise we’d at least need to prevent initially distributed ledger tokens — which are automatically locked up — from being converted to these “colored coins” so as to prevent them from being dumped on the market and encourage people to onboard for legitimate use of the dApps. Yet the actual solution seems to be that the dApp would sell the “colored coins” at a fixed exchange rate (perhaps at a discount compared to prices for features if using the ledger token), as a way to get users to commit funds to that dApp in advance of spending the funds. We registered the domains funbits.org/.us.

Some lists of video sites for inspiration:

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/video-websites
http://bookmarket.com/videosharing.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-12-sites-watch-videos-youtube/
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-watch-videos-on-YouTube-without-advertisements

For music what I have hated about the extant music sites is that they lack decentralized curation, not integrated with a music player for my mobile phone sans the ads and attempts to force me to be a subscriber. I want to be able to have access to all the music I like, very well organized, no nagware, and simply support the artists I like by buying for example a HQ or remix variant of their song and other upsells such as Tshirts, etc.. I want convenience. I want to be able to lose my mobile phone and have everything restored for me when I buy a new one, without having to succumb to Google or Apple (other behemoth’s) vendor lock-in and attacks on my privacy, etc.. Remember from this blog, we registered the domains jambox.org/.us for the name Jambox, juju.cafe/.cash for JuJu, mosh.cafe/.cash/.fun/.one/.sh/.tube for MOSH (as well as moshcafe.com, moshone.com and moshtube.com).

Btw, full disclosure: I still keep going back to Oodles for the "popular appeal" group ;-)

We did register oodles.cc/.network/.xyz and the .net is for sale for $29k. The .org is also for sale. The .com redirects to an Australian car rental company.

I do like the name but the USP is the quantity of something (such as diversity of content or copious rewards). It’s too silly conceptually to be the video site name.

It would be a great name for something people are lacking and need more of.

Perhaps a great name for a decentralized rewards and affiliation site for content creators. Something like oodles of gainful activities.

All in all though, you seem to be drawing closer to the goal: So, you're set on for ledger and token

The problem with all the other seemingly excellent names for the token such as Dash (digital or decentralized cash) or Ξ for the ETH (pronounced ‘eeth’) Ethereum token, is nobody can remember them all. There are so many variants. So the most recall will be either the market leader (i.e. Bitcoin) or the the most differentiated. Seems to me that a single letter will be the most differentiated if there’s no other single letter that works well. Had Ethereum named theirs ‘e’ and used the Ξ symbol, that might have worked. That’s a neat looking symbol, but it can’t be used in a domain name with other letters without being converted to Punycode when displayed in the address bar, e.g. thΞ.com becomes http://xn--th-hbc.com/ (unlike the turned ə which can be displayed in the addess bar as thə.com), it doesn’t look definitively like a letter E (it can also look like other things such as three stacked dashes but this is neat as it conveys transmission such as of electricity or information), and (it’s a roman numeral and thus) it has less of a mathematical association. The turned capital is a math symbol (thus the implications of cryptographic and perhaps some novel mathematically based technological innovations). It’s easy for people to remember ‘e’ for electronic, electricity, ethereal, and the first ever cryptographic electronic money name Ecash.

However, I do also like very much the Ξ symbol and perhaps we should consider that name pronounced as ‘e’ instead of the symbol. The domain name for the ledger is not that important. Note Ξ.com is taken (but not in use) and is displayed asξ.com in the browser’s address bar. We could name the project Ξ and allow either use of the or Ξ for the token (at the user’s discretion). And thus use the thə.com or thə.net domains which we already registered. I don’t agree that Ethereum already uses it for their token symbol excludes us from using it as a project name if we wished to. It’s not their project name and it was used previously to Ethereum by R Λ Z Ξ R.

The plausible single letter competitors would be the reasonably well known ‘i’ for Internet or the much less well known ‘d’ for digital or decentralized. But there’s no mathematical symbols for those. A currency named ‘i’ seems to have an inappropriate meaning. The ‘i’ seems to only works as a prefix, e.g. iPhone and iCloud. Also anything with ‘i’ is going to be presumed to be an Apple product.

¹ Such as receiving a percentage of all the debasement due to onboarding and any APR interest supplied via debasement for incentivizing users to lock-up their ledger tokens in order to decrease the supply of tokens available for sale, aka a pump-amental factor.

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