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

I think there’s a lot that be done to address the user-facing impact of these issues at the client level through thoughtful UX (especially multi-modal interfaces). Onboarding and discovery, in particular, are so bad out of the box that almost any improvements will be meaningful improvements.

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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.