Notices by Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website)

@technomancy @sherlock_holmes My Omelas opinion is that any response to Omelas that doesn't also respond to The Dispossessed has not actually, in fact, responded to Omelas.

@technomancy Is there RSS/ATOM /spec/ that lets you (semantically meaningfully, not identical to copypasting the content as your own) boost a post?

@technomancy "Yeah, I've done a lot of major work within my team on Al Safety (getting him to actually use his turn signals regularly)."

@aeonofdiscord Any user-editable fields displayed consistently to an audience eventually becomes at least somewhat Content, at least sometimes.

(e.g. https://nox.im/posts/2021/0724/hosting-tor-hidden-services-with-vanity-onion-addresses/ )

But making it clear it's specifically NOT the Primary Content -- making a specific separation -- allows it to also NOT be content, if the author doesn't want it.
That's important, to give them that choice.

@aeonofdiscord It's not something you can design against. People will eventually use every possible avenue they can communicate anything in, for expression.

Remember how when the Bot account tag was added on Mastodon, people IMMEDIATELY began using it to express themself?
And location tags on Twitter are the vast majority of the time useless for knowing where someone is, but they'll sure tell you another thing about what they believe.
Relationship markers on Facebook likewise got used for just "haha, we're friends joking with each-other"!

And it's not a bug from the (intended) reader's point of view, either. It's communicative to them.