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

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I was pretty disappointed when @bass_rock told me that adding new and different types of timelines looks to be a pain. That seems like an obvious point for extensibility.

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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.