[eganist]

I'm going to go out on a limb here... based on modestly more private conversations than this Hackernews thread, I'm inclined to read the name—Vitriol—and the fundamentally distributed architecture together as being an effective dogwhistle for already angry people further driven to extremism by the entirely appropriate blackholing of Gab.

It may be a neat concept technically, but I already don't like the direction this is taking in setting up the future of this product.

[api]

... which will kill it, or at least keep it a niche echo chamber for deranged hate and outrage addicts. If they don't want it to be a platform for rage porn vitriol is an awful name.

The word addict here is somewhat serious. One thing I've been thinking for a while is that a lot of these hate and outrage trolls on the net are addicted to the brain chemicals these emotions trigger.