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Let's take that etymology one step further: "fan" comes from "fanatic", so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.

Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂

Welp, there goes the [online] neighbourhood! It was nice knowing you all.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of ... inutile? Unsexy? Old?

Very interesting comparison! I watched The prisoner a while back, and I was blown away by it, especially given the show's age. I never considered this angle, though. Thanks for giving me an excuse to rewatch it 😆

I didn't want to pay for their search engine before, and this garbage sure as hell isn't going to change my mind.

I remember watching "Encounter at Farpoint" when it originally aired. I had only heard of Star Trek, maybe seen a photo of Spock or whatever — I must have been ten or so — but I was hooked on TNG from that episode on, and eventually caught up on the TOS episodes and films.

as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage

I would like this to be the takeaway lesson that humans are better at history. However, loads of accepted history is also trained on garbage.

I'm not going to pretend I grasp the technological details of either Weird or the Leaf protocol, but the basic concept of superpowering the personal website as identity provider is very attractive — and the passion of your writing is infectious 🙂 I hope to someday reach a lightbulb moment with your work and just implement it on my own site.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I'm confused, which is it?