Reconsider “skeet” and “reskeet”

[BookshopLeslie]

I’m sure it’s challenging to come up with brand-exclusive recognizable terms for things that exist on other platforms, but please consider an alternative to the “skeet” before Beta ends. Users frequently mention dislike of this term; I’ve yet to see a skeet in favor of the name.

I humbly suggest that there is no real need to come up with a unique word and that simply using generic terms like “post” and “repost” or “share” and “reshare” would be clearer and much more popular.
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[pfrazee]

"Post" and "Repost" are the official terms. Users informally call them skeets and we haven't found any meaningful ways to stop them.

[Zero3K]

There's blocking those words or just ignoring people who use those words. I think they call them that because bluesky sounds like brewsky (like the name for an alcoholic beverage).

[pfrazee]

Heh you know, one thing we could do is introduce a "profanity filter" that replaces words (aka hell -> heck) and it could be used for this

EDIT: to be clear this would be a personal setting that runs in the client

[BookshopLeslie]

Heh you know, one thing we could do is introduce a "profanity filter" that replaces words (aka hell -> heck) and it could be used for this

EDIT: to be clear this would be a personal setting that runs in the client

That would be awesome. I’m glad it’s not “official” terminology; I won’t feel bad about not using it. Maybe “skeet” becomes “post” or maybe it becomes a word or emoji of the user’s choice… 🤔