Is this pinned? both on burrow and the updated studio i get the message that it is not pinned.
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\n\n\n\nMaybe VGR, as the instigator and ringleader of the nascent Blygger movement, should start throwing out some challenges? That can all help us get to know each other’s vibe?
\nI think culture comes later, downstream of exercising the new medium and figuring out its message. There’s no such thing as figuring out each other’s vibes in the abstract, only as expressed through a medium. People who aren’t yet comfortable in a medium come across as awkward in it and unable to project or sense vibes. This is new enough we’re all kinda awkward, despite many of us knowing each other in other media.
\nEg: One feature that’s not yet exercised enough is forks, which require people to get used to the idea of pins and traceable chains of mutations.
\nHere’s a simple challenge that I think might be a fun way to get a feel for pins and forks. Write a pithy aphorism with a challenge to people to make a snowclone of it, and pin at least 1 version. Then people can fork the pin, edit suitably, and pin their own version, allowing more forks and pins.
\nWorked example:
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\n- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (Clarke)
\n- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature (Karl Schroeder)
\n- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from play (Seb Paquet)
\nThis one is easy. Many words will work in place of magic. My friend Mick once wondered if we could make snowclones that targeted the advanced part.
\nEg: Any sufficiently decentralized technology is indistinguishable from politics.
\nI’ll make that my starter challenge and pin this. Fork and see if you can come up with other interesting variants that target words other than the last (the last can also change, but the challenge is the rest of it).
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