On reflection, I get your reservation over Myriad.
the Keeper name doesn’t convey that itself is decentralized. It doesn’t convey the technology by which it achieves its caretaker role.
So if Keeper (btw, I suspect Keepa might have be one of the alternate spellings you registered?) fails in this regard, and that the key concept you want to convey is...
the freedom of the data is the critical concept, yet moreover the benefits that stem from that freedom.
.. then it misses the mark on that score as well.
Perhaps open data is still the best name?
Descriptively, yes, perhaps so. But the thing is, it just seems too bland and uninspiring.
A tentative one I thought of was Demute - morphing from Immute.
And then I came back to your earlier and dismissed Unbound, which links to your Liberator idea; which was descriptively more accurate, but for me at least, wasn't as compelling a word as Keeper. Round and round!
I was thinking again about what you said previously, that...
Data is very important to Millennials. Why would they not care about their data? Their music, their photos, their freedom to wisecrack in a permissionless environment (e.g. 4chan), etc.
While I agree that data clearly is very important to Millennials, going by the evidence of my working environment (which consists of quite a few teens and twenties females), none of them seem very concerned about its privacy and safety; most having open access to their Facebook pages. Just recently when we were recruiting, they were trying to find dirt on the various applicants by scouring their profiles - not that uncommon an activity I suspect). What I'm saying is that there often seems to be a cavalier approach to security amongst those users who've never known a world without the internet.
I’m wondering if maybe we should have an alternative name Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह) for the site, especially for Indians. I have registered some of the domains.
So, broadly, "Truth Force"? Yes, I can see your reasoning on that one.
Btw, I’m looking at TRYBE (←click that link!). That’s a reasonably good name. Try+be = tribe.
OK, my reaction before reading the link was that I read it as "Tribe" straight off rather than Try+be. I like the look of the word, that spelling. Sort of mixed assoiations, both positive and negative: resilient, unique, insular, proud, echo-chamber....
So after reading it, (maybe I'm being dense) but I'm trying to work out the relevance of "Try" and Be"; a positive urging to strive and gain personal sovereignty?
It was an interesting piece. It is such a shame to see how the West is resting on its laurels, luxuriating in hubris. Reminds me of the British industry in the post-war era when Triumph, BSA and the like, continued making motorcycles just as they had done for twenty years (leaky and unreliable), only to be shocked to see those cheeky Japs introduce dependable Hondas with electric starts, indicators etc. Now the whole West seems to be under the same spell of entitlement and assumed eternal superiority, sinking into depravity.
more interested in promoting egalitarianism than actually keeping their focus on the engineering. This ideological suicide of the West is quite obvious by now.
Yep!
RE: Name YOUR decentralized social network?