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One of the things you might notice from the fact that now twice I've mentioned there's other fields that have technical terminology that applies here: Oh hey. There are other fields that have clues that pertain. They have methodologies and other cool toys you might want to play with.

Engineering is, to a first approximation, applied science. So if you want to engineer socials, you might want to start hitting up the social scientists and people in other fields that apply social science.

This is something else Mastodon has going for it: it's got social scientists around here somewhere.

Now, I appreciate what I propose here has a bootstrapping problem. I don't know whether any of the decision makers about code, protocols, or individual instances have the capacity to enlist the help of the people on Mastodon with those professional clues, and I'm not sure Mastodon has the affordances to bring them together.

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