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My goodness, but I would love if File Explorer / Nautilus / Finder style apps would display README.{txt,md,rst} files similar to how GitHub does it. Would love to be able to leave reminders to myself as to what the fuck a folder is for.

i've become death, destroyer of- well, mostly myself really

Anyway that paper about academic Masto instances is fine except that it

* Erases much of the actual history of academic Fedi
* Ignores the actual reasons why marginalized people would want federated social media and instead focuses entirely on the nebulous badness of private ownership of a commons
* Conflates participation of institutions and individuals on Fedi
* Is completely uninformed by the reality of instance admin/mod responsibilities
* Actually no it's pretty bad

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Suppose a vast number of instances distributed throughout the internet, on the order of the number of observable domains. Lots and lots of them. Those instances make up the body of a federated society. Federated Sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society🧵​(1/3)

The fediverse is a dark forest. Every instance is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, a shitposter or a sincereposter, a delicate liberal or a Hans from Stuttgart, a fairy or a dragn—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. 🧵​ (4/3)

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Any federating instance would view any other as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy any nascent life that makes its presence known.

As a result, the fediverse would be relatively silent, without evidence of any intelligent alien life, as in a "dark forest" filled with "armed hunter(s) stalking through the trees like a ghost" 🧵​(3/3)

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another "wish i could help my fellow students with this" is all the people who got their laptop through the uni laptop program 1-2 years ago are now unknowingly getting an auto-update to windows 11, which doesn't work, bricking it until the service desk puts it back on windows 10....

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like of course the sci-hub part is a bit more tricky legally etc etc, but just Zotero would help my peers tremendously, but personally I also don't really have the spoons to teach it to every group project I work with

but it's so, soo much better than just loosely piling some papers, and just sorta winging the in-text and bibliography list of references by manual copy-pasting and going through web forms to generate APA formats

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Having Zotero set up with the sci-hub add-on is fucking incredible. Why aren't students taught any of this

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The fediverse is a dark forest. Every instance is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, a shitposter or a sincereposter, a delicate liberal or a Hans from Stuttgart, a fairy or a dragn—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. 🧵​ (4/3)

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yeah i read The Dark Forest and you should too. also the 🧵​formatting was done purely for comedic effect

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Any federating instance would view any other as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy any nascent life that makes its presence known.

As a result, the fediverse would be relatively silent, without evidence of any intelligent alien life, as in a "dark forest" filled with "armed hunter(s) stalking through the trees like a ghost" 🧵​(3/3)

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Consider the following axioms:
- All instances desire to stay alive.
- There is no way to know if other instances can or will destroy you if given a chance.
- Lacking assurances, the safest option for any instance is to annihilate others before they have a chance to do the same. 🧵​(2/3)

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Suppose a vast number of instances distributed throughout the internet, on the order of the number of observable domains. Lots and lots of them. Those instances make up the body of a federated society. Federated Sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society🧵​(1/3)

maybe i should split that big toot up into a (1/3) thread, as a bit

uni 

this course, and the assignment focus on improving diversity/inclusivity is great, but the more general lectures about design methods are abysmally boring and very superfluous

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