I agree that the currency token and ledger name should be ∃. That will standout the most. So far there’s no technological name which can convey all of the innovations, nor standout as significantly.
∃ implies electronic which is known to be instantaneous. When I flip the switch to turn on the light bulb, there’s no delay.
However, Streem is another choice which could be both the ledger and dApps name, c.f. below…
The problem I have with Realms (or R∃ALMS) is the association with fantasy. It’s an apt name for gaming or art, but it may not compete with a more professional name in following specific applications such as:
Mediumfor bloggingQuorafor Q&ARedditfor forumsWikipediafor user editable (aka wiki) compendium of information
Why would you want to blog, participate in Q&A, or consult a community-generated encyclopedia that is named Realms? The astral connotation just doesn’t fit definitionally. I had recently lauded that Realms is brandable, creative, and we could try to brand the “individual dominions of any activity,” but we’re fighting against the most natural association which is astral fantasy. Would be better if we choose a name which has a more natural association to the USP of our offering for those said decentralized clones.
For the decentralized curation model clones of Medium, Quora, Reddit, and Wikipedia, I have been trying to think of a name that would allow everyone to express their own viewpoint without being censored, such that those like-minded can congregate around the content they want. That is opposed to a one-size-fits-all (aka let’s all tie our shoelaces together) Babylonian-esque totalitarianism.
I recently added the following quoted text to my blog Countries Vulnerable to Economic Devastation Soon:
So in short, the West is shooting itself in the feet as the Titanic is on flames and sinking. This Western process of self-immolation (aka “societalcide”) will accelerate over this coming decade as Western socialism is destroyed by destroying itself and its society.
But this is creative destruction because it ushers in the vital decentralization technologies which will reshape the global economy and provide massive employment by unlocking the value of maximum division-of-labor and disintermediating behemoths. Conceptualize it simply— if we all tied our shoelaces together, we’d be much less valuable while in that tied up state.
Tangentially, “Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia” highlights three points in favor of this project I’m involved with:
- He didn’t earn anything, whereas he possibly would if applying that effort to a gamified/tokenized replacement I’m contemplating.
- It’s been a social experience and he says people get to know him and he develops a reputation. So there’s my decentralized curation idea taking form but not fully empowered in the one-size-fits-all Wikipedia. where everyone sees only the same variant of each page.
- He has too much centralized power as an approved editor, because of the said one-size-fits-all.
The name ideas Affinity and Graffiti were two attempts to think of a better fit name for the aforementioned. With Affinity I was trying to convey that like-minded users congregate. Yet I agree the natural association with dating is a negative. Graffiti was my attempt to convey that anyone can add their own variant or perspective to content. Yet I agree the natural association is to vandalizing (the content).
So I thought of another name:
| Name | Domains |
|---|---|
| Slant | (.io/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .app/.in/.me/.org ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .com ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ juliakimsmith.com, .cc ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵉᶠᵘⁿᶜᵗ flavors.me, .xyz $995, .as/.city/.cloud/.community/.global/.id/.im/.network/.nu/.one/.online/.to/.town/.tube/.us.com/.us.org/.website/.wiki/.ws/ slantnetwork.com/ slantonline.com/ slantwiki.com ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Slants | (.app/.blog/.com/.org ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .net $1349, .co/.cc/.in/.info/.me/.media/.network/.to/.us/.wiki/.xyz/.zone ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
So on the Slants website I could envision a menu:
- Blogs
- Communities
- Blogs
- Forums (Reddit clone)
- Wiki
- Q&A
- Infopedia
- Q&A
I think we’d also want one the following name and domain, or some name to compete with Wikipedia clones such as Infogalactica and Everipedia:
| Name | Domains |
|---|---|
| Infopedia Infopədia | (.com ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .org $1519 or $6449, .co $130, .info $399, infopədia.app/ |
We could possibly redirect the above domain choice to for example infopedia.slants.___ or vice versa.
Unfortunately ‘slant’ has a derogatory slang meaning when referring to some Asian eyelids. Also it doesn’t really strike me as compelling.
So I thought of another name:
| Name | Domains |
|---|---|
| Prisms | (.app/.net/.us/pris.ms ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .com $79999, prizms.com $27300, .cc/.im/.info/.media/.network/.nu/.one/.onl/.page/.space/.to/.us.com/.us.org/.wiki/.ws/.zone/ prizms.app/.co/.io/.me/.org/.us/ priz.ms ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
One of the definitions:
often used figuratively to describe a way of looking at or thinking about something that causes you to see or understand it in a different way.
used figuratively with reference to the clarification or distortion afforded by a particular viewpoint.
“they were forced to imagine the disaster through the prism of television”
A downside is it sounds similar to ‘prisons’. And many people may not know the above definition. The word sounds technical and not so friendly. And the USP concept is too abstract. Yet I still like the name. Unique. Brandable. Professional. But might not stand out enough.
So I thought of another possible direction to go for the name which would be more descriptive of a USP.
Both the editing and the microtransaction tipping (which won’t suffer why ChangeTip died) required for making edits will form a tree structure. For example, the author of a blog will receive a mandatory tip (probably ≦ $0.01 in value) paid by every person who upvotes or posts a comment to his blog as a top-level reply to the blog. To downvote will cost the same as an upvote, but the fee isn’t shared with the author of the content downvoted (instead the fee propagates to ancestors of comments or is burned if no ancestors such as downvotes on the blog thus not on a comment). Replies (but not upvotes) to said comments will have the tip split perhaps 50/50 between the comment and blog authors. And ditto recursively for all branches of thetree of comments posted on the blog.
This will also apply to comments which are Post-It notes directly inserted into the blog text (which the reader can turn off or have filtered by their choice of moderators or the automatic moderator matching by like-mindedness), not just those comments below the blog. The comment authors will have their editing client (i.e. the app or website) set to automatically pay the microtransaction fee as long as it is below their preferred maximum amount (as configured in their account settings). If it exceeds, the comment author will be prompted before composing their comment. Comment authors and voters will pay this because:
- The cost is too low for them to be concerned.
- They really want to comment or vote, because there’s something important they want to express. Otherwise we don’t want them to (spam) comment or vote anyway.
- They can potentially earn more, if others upvote and/or respond to their comment.
- The cognitive load of whether to pay the microtransaction is automated in most cases.
- They’re interested in high quality outcomes, else they’re be using “free” ad-supported, centralized alternatives.
Note we (or blog author’s choice) could choose to make the cost of commenting much less than voting (so that users hodling very small account balances can participate), or at least for comments which are below the blog and not in a prime location as Post-It notes.
So imagine this for the Wikipedia clone wherein all the tree of edits that spawn from any contributor’s edit, will generate all that residual revenue over time. This is not an insignificant economic motivation, especially coupled with the appreciation of the value of Fat protocol tokens as the platform adoption grows.
So names which come to mind that incorporate ‘tree’:
| Name | Domains |
|---|---|
| Infotree | (.net/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .org $3709, .com ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ websolutions.com, infotr |
| Patreeon | (.app/.net/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .com $2660, .ai/.app/.art/.blog/.cc/.co/.community/.id/.info/.io/.me/.media/ patrəəon.app/.com/.net ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Poetree | (.app/.com/.me/.net ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .cc/.co/.io/.network/.to/poetr.ee ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Streem Streeme Streemin | (.app/.com/.io/.net/.org/streeme.com/stree.me/streemin.com ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .me ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ .pro, .as/.blog/.cash/.cc/.community/.foundation/.id/.im/streemin.app/streemnetworkstreeme.ai/.app/.cc/.co/.io/strəəm.app/.com/.net/ streəm.app/.com/.net ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Tipgraph | (.app/.cc/.co/tipgra.ph ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Treendy | (.com/trendy.com ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ₛₑᵣᵢₒᵤₛ ᵤₛₑ, .app/.cc/.co/.io/.me/trəəndy.app/.com/.net ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
The tables above aren’t chopped off on the right side if viewed on busy.org.
Given all the complaints (c.f. also, also and also) that have arisen against Patreon.com lately, the Patreeon name seems very apropos and actually bloggers and such are looking for a way to monetize their activity. I had mentioned Patreon 10 months ago when discussing why microtransaction model (perhaps coupled with automatically recurring monthly pledges for favorite producers) would be superior to Medium’s $5 subscriptions.
Patreeon is a very different direction in naming than I was originally contemplating. But it actually seems to be more astute, because it speaks directly to a monetary USP while also having an abstract technological meaning with the incorporation of ‘tree’.
Are people going to come use the site because they can read more ‘slants’ through ‘prisms’, or because they can show support to their favorite bloggers, curators, etc.. and because they monetize their online activity meritoriously without top-down centralized censorship?
The downside of Patreeon is that it isn’t ‘patron’ which is a word many people in the world don’t even know the meaning of. Yet Patreon has demonstrated that it’s a brandable name. And it confuses with the branding of Patreon and users may mistype the name. We could perhaps alleviate this by branding the logo and catch phrase to the technology of a tree graph, which would also implicitly associate it to a DAG variant of a blockchain. So it would be, “the Patreon on the DAG-like blockchain with residual tree graph tipping.”
Yet Patreon is not that widely known yet as it’s only a Top 300 site worldwide (and Top 164 in the USA). Roughly one-tenth as popular as Reddit, one-third as popular as Quora and Dropbox, and half as popular as Medium, TheGuardian, Wikia, Etsy and Yelp. Roughly on par popularity as Flickr, booking.com, wix.com and mozilla.org.
Streem or Streemin should associate with streaming content, news feeds, and Facebook timelines. The ‘tree’ concept is (unfortunately?) obfuscated, except that the spelling isn’t ‘stream’.
Tipgraph is more direct-to-the-point w.r.t. to the USP of tree graph of residual tips income. It doesn’t imply the optional monthly stipends of Patreon. Neither of those two names imply a content site/app.
Treendy may associate with trending (recently popular) content. And we have the concept of a tree of content, which will make sense to them once they use the site. Although the most direct association is with fashion, that might not be such a negative because it makes the name more friendly to females and less technologically daunting in general.
P.S. approximate registration costs:
1 .xyz
4 .id/.network/.us
7 .com
8 .net
9 .wiki
11 .org
14 .ee
15 .app
EDIT: Initial feedback is my 40 year old ex liked Prism, Infopedia, Streem and Trendy, but on further contemplation she prefers the first two she listed. My 21 year old son prefers Infopedia and Patreeon but didn’t know the meaning of ‘patron’. The 29 year old filipina Michelle prefers Infopedia and “patron” because she remembered a recent song which mentions the Patrón tequila (probably the subconscious reason my son liked it). None of them are in the target audience demographics (and I will address this in a follow-up comment).
