Wyclif @wyclif

Anglican ordinand. Former land surveyor. Pilgrim to Jerusalem; also Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia.

🦿 Lucian Marin Words are now highlighted while listening to an article on artificialfeed.com but it took me a while to figure out how to do it properly.

Wyclif Responding to a different change: why can we not have lower-case names anymore? All of a sudden mine is capitalized when I intentionally wanted it to be lower-case. This seems like a bad idea.

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Wyclif All of a sudden, my name starts with a capital letter when I intentionally made it lower-case. This seems like a bad decision to me.

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Rsm Hmmm, who did that? Taking away our liberties?

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Bnaw Honestly I'd rather not have this take off. Basically all platforms/communities degrade massively as soon as they take off.

Wyclif Excellent point.

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📉 Bill Invite some people then maybe. Do you want it to take off?

Wyclif I'm not sure about that. Someone else here pointed out that "taking off" and blowing up leads to degradation: see Twitter 2020.

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Wyclif So is this thing gonna take off or what?

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📉 Bill Invite some people then maybe. Do you want it to take off?

🤬 Foobar I think there's a good chance. But I do think it needs a little bit more work, especially when it comes to navigation. I wish it was open source so I could contribute to it.

❄️ Geoff If it doesn't, @lucian should package this up and enable people to start their own topic-focused communities

Bnaw Honestly I'd rather not have this take off. Basically all platforms/communities degrade massively as soon as they take off.

Jack Byers I wonder if any free social network can achieve virality while gatekeeping toxic trolls...