Consider more user-friendly vocabulary around rooms

[mplorentz]

The name "room" has many connotations that can be confusing for users. The biggest instance of this is that users think they should be able to post messages in the room - like a chat room. We should consider a name that helps users understand the role that rooms play in replication.

The same is true of "alias", a feature of rooms. IRL Aliases are usually used to keep part of your identity hidden, but in scuttlebutt they are actually deanonymizers. In practice they are really just web links that point to your SSB profile.

[danlatorre]

Big issue we've been talking about. So far best name seems to be Hubs. But also need to explain this to users regardless of the name.

[mplorentz]

I proposed renaming rooms on SSB in %dJbEPppSWHLLOXAXBXbZMDZdc4yzL1V5R4W2fUuwyCo=.sha256 and notably Manyverse leader Andre Staltz was not interested.

Also since this ticket was opened the Planetary room project has morphed into something else that will include a pub, room, and web viewer which deserves its own name (I think hub is a good one. I also like directory or directory server).

So I think the vocabulary described in this ticket can include:

• vanilla rooms
• Planetary room + pub + viewer hybrids
• a class name that includes rooms, pubs, and the above new Planetary thing (relay servers?)