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From now on this is my official explanation of the :

ok so we've clearly all read Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Remember W.A.S.T.E.? the network of trash cans run by societal dropouts? and somehow they manage to deliver letters from trash can to trash can? that's fediverse

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Darius Kazemi

feditip: we await silent trystero's empire

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@darius does that make Twitter or Facebook the Raketen-Stadt?

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marshmallow rancher

@darius shall I project a world?

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@darius @VCP this is for you

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waldläuferin unterwegs

@darius
This is not helping 😤 at all. Can you please lure all the extremely bright Twitter people into the fediverse who are complaining it's too fvcking *complicated*. I cannot & will not subscribe to 200 substacks.

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jesse

@darius I remember a p2p sharing protocol was also named after w.a.s.t.e.

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Dan Fain, Ph.D.

@darius Hey, at least we’re not that other network #Pynchon hypothesized: of light bulbs ensuring they each burned out according to a proper Poisson process, and didn’t survive longer than appropriate.

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Gracious Anthracite

@darius

There's been a post-horn in the branding of my instance since the very beginning for much this reason. The first one's under the toot box, the second one was on the front page until an update broke my custom HTML.

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Gregory Burd

@darius /me orders a new book that sounds amazing, thanks for sharing!

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Tijn

@darius This explanation is pretty good to me (from twitter.com/richard_littler/st )

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Toddo

@darius @vincent Omigod I *love* The Crying of Lot 49. Apropos of nothing 😏

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