@manton I think a motivation for me (context: using twitter) was the possibility of serendipitous discovery, not the people at the node themselves being the trophies, but the ideas they discussed, the art they shared, the personal and pedestrian expressions in quips and images and so on; taking part in that is good clean fun.

It is quite clear to me now, however, that a sample set that large is not needed—in fact it works agains the sorts of experiences I went there looking for in the first place.

Obviously I am saying that the dynamics here seem far superior to what else is on offer at that scale. Is there a magic number, an optimal range for community? Probably not, more a frequency thing, I think.

Anyway, thanks to you and team for making this place/ software-situation/ service/ community/ well worth it on many levels. ❤︎ ⚧ ꩜ ᰾ 𐩕

@jayeless improvementing? but I have language down like pat.

@SimonWoods 4real Simon. I think my ingrained imagining of information navigation as some machete though the jungle exercise isn’t necessarily the best way to get to the knowledge, and can be off-putting to folks who might be of assistance getting there.

(side-note: my son would interject here "You need to be off pudding!" and we would laugh and laugh.)

@bkryer consider that 5 ys of credit card xactions is magnitudes more valuable than your potential reaction to a potential situation. If only for reasons of personal safety I wouldn’t mind knowing before hand that 8 square blocks were going to be used to demonstrate some strong emotions for the next 24hrs+. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, you see, and might not want to walk through. Or maybe my kids don’t...and so on.

@bkryer @cleverdevil @cygnoir @darby3 @pcora @camacho @JohnPhilpin

I mean, if this makes folks uncomfortable, consider what companies with years of accumulated data are doing privately to improve their market positions. Consider bundles of collections, like securities. But nary a word...

@JohnPhilpin Well I think I saw it earlier. Feedly saying "hey, we have these packets of info to buy"...as creepy as it maybe....

@bkryer @cleverdevil @cygnoir @darby3 @pcora @camacho @JohnPhilpin

I'm not unhappy that they are selling this information to the general public. I’m happy to know about these potentialities—I might want to join in, or avoid, for many different reasons.

What is the outrage pointed at...capitalism generally? Opportunistic software makers?

btw, I am educate-able. see footnotes just about everywhere.

@cleverdevil @cygnoir What is the badness that is happening? I’m not sure how to over-react.

@cleverdevil Travel, facilities management, and many other support orgs, have been doing this sort of analysis forever. This just seems like opportunistic point and panic please look at me, look at me!

@leonp yes, yes it is ♜ ❤︎ 🎵