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artlung.com edited /block (+258) "A Bluesky account which posts the reply which immediately precedes a block" (view diff)
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[artlung] Not sure what to do with "quoting" entry. Seems like "reply" ought to supersede it. https://indieweb.org/quoting
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Loqi responses, or interactions, in the context of the indieweb, refer to all the different ways and things people explicitly do to and with others’s posts, from written replies to quick likes, in other words responses = replies + reactions https://indieweb.org/interactions
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# [social] A long time term of “techno social” may work
# [social] Other people misusing and overusing terms doesn’t mean they are wrong or not incredibly helpful. There is always a cycle when a term hits popularity and it starts getting misused and used for everything. But, over time that erosion of meaning has people stop using the term and it becomes helpful again. Things are a bit better in academic circles. I’ve watched nearly everything around in web and digital systems go through this.
# [social] Jyri Engstron’s creation of “social object” as an easier to access term than socially mediated objects that Karin Knorr Cetina initially used. Having that term make getting the focus and use far easier to get right. As the term’s use grew it made it a mess to use it thanks to people who didn’t understand the term and continually misused it. I’ve worked with a few groups who missed the mess part of the cycle for the ter
# [social] been using the term and understandings it leads to really well to improve product and projects they are working on.
# [social] For that “digital sociology” and “technology culture studies” are both commonly used terms for books, research, and articles.
# [artlung] I was fascinated to encounter https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SWAT0.html on that grouping
# [social] [tantek] I understand term pollution and frustration well and don’t want to minimize that.
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tantek.com edited /POSE (+74) "note everywhere -> elsewhere iteration / evolutionary change as well" (view diff)
# [artlung] Funny you edit POSE [tantek] ~ I briefly considered creating a
{{historical}} banner for pages. Similar in concept to how {{stub}} is used maybe. A banner to set the context. I see some pages kept around e.g. https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_Historical# 
[tantek] maybe fork this template? https://indieweb.org/Template:past-iwc
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gRegor interesting, I hadn't noticed the subcategories in https://indieweb.org/Category:stubs. I'm not sure that hierarchy makes the most sense.
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