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Derek Powazek 🐐

@kissane Given that the entire protocol copies things from server to server on purpose, the periodic freakouts about new services doing exactly that while others are applauded for "implementing the protocol" (which copies things by default) is so mystifying to me.

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Derek Powazek 🐐

@kissane (I know, humans are complicated and trust is hard in distributed systems, etc.)

Erin Kissane

@fraying I think whenever I get confused by this stuff I get *really interested* because it's usually a sign that there are cultural norms being obscured by technical capacities. And of course I love that shit.

Derek Powazek 🐐

@kissane it definitely all means … something.

Stefan Bohacek

@fraying @kissane Something I brought up a few times today is this idea of having a robots.txt file for each of our social media profiles.

Much like a website that gets to decide who can access its publicly available content, some people would also like to exercise this level of control.

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