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Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

Like 19 Nov 2022 at 19:03 | Open on chaos.social

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allo

Loosely based on this explanation of how git works.

https://twitter.com/mrngm/status/660090126912081921

19 Nov 2022 at 19:04 | Open on chaos.social

LaPingvino 🟙 :ir:

@allo Seeing the structure that probably comes originally from the joke explanation about Monads in Haskell.

20 Nov 2022 at 14:56 | Open on neurodifferent.me

JordiGH

@lapingvino @allo joke explanation?

21 Nov 2022 at 23:45 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

arkywarky

@lapingvino @allo i mean, a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

21 Nov 2022 at 23:48 | Open on catcatnya.com

aug24

@lapingvino @allo I was checking the replies to see if anyone had made a monoid joke yet, before I did. Guess I won’t!

22 Nov 2022 at 21:30 | Open on toot.community

Chris Ely

XKCD has a comic for nearly everything now.

https://xkcd.com/1597

#xkcd1597

@allo

21 Nov 2022 at 5:34 | Open on fosstodon.org

Chris Ely

Also, at least two for Mastodon.

https://xkcd.com/2045/

#xkcd2045

@allo

21 Nov 2022 at 5:37 | Open on fosstodon.org

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@allo Computer Science Professor: This is trivial, so I’m not going to explain it to you. However, I do expect you to fully prove this assumption in the exam.

22 Nov 2022 at 3:12 | Open on mastodon.online

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