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RE: Name YOUR decentralized social network?

Political correctness and social justice warrior activism is not a negative and polarizing concept?

While polarizing from an objective standpoint, yes, but not necessarily so from the personal viewpoint of those who in turn champion PC and SJW pursuits and others who might interpret diversity in quite a different way, through, say, the evolutionary process and its resulting robustness.

Also for Westerners, Dverse with user configurable curation and no censorship means diversity is respected, but not in the way that leftists want it where they are in control and can tell everyone else how to act. So it is sort of like a fabulous slight of hand where we say, okay you want diversity, then we are going to give it to you, but you won’t like what diversity really is in the real world where meritocracy matters and people can choose. Free markets are inherently more diverse, but Marxists will profess otherwise.

In a sense, all things to all people.

Whether the ‘diverse’ meaning can be moved away from political correctness and social justice to the desired diversity of dApps is not certain in my mind.

I suppose the question is, when most people see the word "diversity" (or any other spelling alluding to the term) are they more or less likely to see it in a positive sense from what they believe is their own positive interpretation, which could indeed include the merits of decentralisation, or whether it has too much baggage?

Agreed, I’m also mistyping it ‘kilk’ when I was lacking sleep. Too many spellings. Conceptually the word is easy to recall, but recalling a specific spelling may be another source of attrition.

Though I guess once someone has spelt it correctly the first time and then bookmarked it, it needn't be an issue again.

simpletons and Asians can remember Klik, but I am not sure if that is worth much when it can’t stand out as unique from mouse clicking.

True. And I wonder if it's too ambitious in expecting any one name to appeal to the whole IQ Bell Curve as well as the entire global (dare I say "diverse"!) cultural sweep.

I’m also gravitating towards Droot as the most brandable if we can think of a concept for its brand that works.

I’m thinking of making it like a game where the cute Droot droid will dance and say cute phrases depending on how much feedback/readership your contributions/activities in the dApps attain.

Yeah, that could be popular.

Remember this will be (unlike Steem) a microtransaction system so feedback/readership isn’t free (although so low-cost that no one will complain, but not low-cost enough to just spam away). I’m thinking for example on our model of a Wikipedia clone how any user will be able to fork any page and create a version that diverges from some non-existent global consensus. Readers will have the divergent forks of a page ranked from their chosen curation configuration (and the #1 rank being the default) where every user can thus see different rankings. Anyway, the point of mentioning this, is that drooting can be associated with forking a page. I suppose we could apply this forking to everything including blogs and dApps. There may be many forks of the same dApp (or let’s say different configurations of plugin customizations for each dApp). So drooting can be that process of decentralized forking of available choices. In that process the Droot bot is there to applaud and tantalize/entertain you about your success.

"Drooting" might just be a term that could catch on. I think the microtransaction aspect would hopefully soon be appreciated too when users realise their personal data isn't automatically being hoovered-up and sold-on. Your model of Wikipedia would be what most of us had wanted the original one to be. It seems "right" and fair. It reminds me of something I heard on a podcast today (talking on the gift economy), how when you encounter something like this you get a feeling of homecoming.

Over time the Droot bot could become more sentient and replace Siri.

Can't come soon enough! I don't know about Asia, but a growing minority in the West seem to be getting spooked by the "surveilance capitalism" business model.

Get your points over postponing medical tests.

I've had my own battles with "gut dysfunction" for a few years, so can appreciate at least to some extent what you might be going through. A combination of kefir, kimchi (I've been investigating the merits of fermented foods for a while and their often beneficial influence on the microbiome; which I seem to recall you too writing about a while back) and meditation might be helping to mittigate symptoms - which I'm coming to believe have a psychological basis in my case.

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