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Out of curiosity, what are your favourite features that are unique to your implementation?

I think scopes/criteria/boundaries on communities are fine, I disagree that invite-only (as one implementation of community boundaries) is the future of online communities. Althoug…

I think some are fine, but if I had to choose one I'd choose open access, so I think it's the more important of the two. And in fact it's because the web is open, "no permission ne…

Hmmmm interesting analogy! I'm not too sure if cliques apply as much to online communities. Cliques are usually exclusionary not because people don't meet the criteria/scope of the…

> Invitation-only is the future of online communities. This feels antithetical/dystopian/elitist compared to what online communities are, for me. I think it's ok for some communiti…

> keeps going on hit miss (Is this a typo?)

What open source alternatives have you switched to recently? Always on the lookout for good OS tools!

I think there are many arguments for and against this type of regulation. Good arguments on both sides take into account nth-order effects. But both sides have different priorities…

I quite enjoyed Blindsight, but that was not my takeaway at all :P How do you see people differently after reading it?

Very interesting book/idea! Adding it to my "to read" list. The more I think about it, there is kind of a two-step process here; entropy creates chaos/disorder, but chaos/disorder …

Interesting reads! Apologies, that's not what I intended to communicate, but I can understand where that conclusion came from. I think understanding and exploring the universe is a…

Thought-provoking write-up. One part of this is the "meaning of human life". Part of that for me is: humans are the only known lifeform that can look at the stars and try to unders…

I find it hard to assign good faith to someone who says the question "Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?" is the same as proclaiming "AI is…

Is anyone disagreeing with that statement?

True, but arguably better than "sorry, to use our website, you must have a ChatGPT subscription."

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/up-to-70-... Up to 70% of streams of AI music on Deezer were fraudulent!

I think one could argue that one. Is a DDoS a symptom? In which case the intent is irrelevant. Or is a DDoS an attack/crime? In which case it is. We kind of use it to mean both. Bu…

Exactly. Identifying crawlers like Google, bing aren't the issue. They obey robots.txt, and can easily be blocked by user agent checks. Non-identifying crawlers, which provide huma…

The first is incorrect, these scrapers are usually distributed across many IPs, in my experience. I usually refer to them as "disturbed, non-identifying crawlers (DNCs)" when I wan…

I found this on open library from 1989, if useful: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5859479W/Steel_construction?... With a few other options in search: https://openlibrary.org/searc…

Gish-galloping! Today I learned, I'm going to have to remember that one. I think people can also gish-gallop unintentionally; especially in online discussion threads. When someone …

> I extremely quickly dismiss them in the most polite, but firm, way possible. And I think that's the answer; people who don't want to talk will simply tell you! And everyone carri…

While observing the benefits of his position, I also empathize with the struggles that must come with unexpected widespread fame. And I never said he is/should succumb to the press…

I think it's an interesting relationship between influencers, especially young ones, and their followers. Young influencers of this nature get a following because of their authenti…

For me it was poignant as the story of a young man who has for his entire life been keen on reading, writing, and communicating, who has in a way achieved what he was looking to ac…