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"Somewhere, somebody ran into this exact problem, but they never bothered to post a solution."

"[Judging by successful predictions] implies that the job of science fiction is to predict THE future, and it isn’t; the job is to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants. "

webfinger, actors, etc.

"Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works."

Yep. It's just stirring a bigger pile now.

"It acknowledged ‘inaccuracies’ in historical prompts."

"This specification defines a privacy-preserving way to measure clicks that result in cross-site navigations, such as ad clicks that result in a purchase or a sign-up."
A proposal to limit click reporting in a way that it can't be used for more general tracking of users and their activity.

"What heretical software features can you imagine that would never fly at a growth oriented company but could totally work on free open source social media?
For example, algorithmic timelines are one way to deal with information overload. But what if instead your software offered suggestions for people to unfollow (this person posts a lot and you hardly ever interact with them)? Not necessarily a good idea but it's an idea we could implement that would NEVER happen on Twitter, Facebook, etc"