Been doing some light reading on mastodon this weekend. Unconnected, ill-informed thoughts follow.

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Of course, these are all social graph problems at heart. Path—my all time favorite social network—was all ablut tiny communities of besties and/or families; LinkedIn is self-selecting professional relationships (effectively instance-based); Facebook and Instagram are basically just the whole of humanity, a few of which you’ve favorited; Google Plus (as well as I remember it), was very forward about allowing you to create different “circles,” but we all balked at the overhead of it all.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.