@J12t there is far too little concern about heatwaves going above the limit for human survival, especially in densely populated areas, especially in places without widespread air conditioning and a grid to support it.
@ShadSterling I didn't like The Ministry for the Future very much, except for the opening scene of the deadly heatwave in India. IMHO it could happen like that any year now.
Pondering how the #threadiverse group thinks of having consistent reply trees across instances for the purpose of forum software. One proposal is to have a “group” actor re-announce everything that has been sent to it. It appears to me this approach would work just as well in a microblogging context where we have, today, the inconsistent reply tree problem across instances as well. The actor that made the root post would act as the re-announcer.
@J12t the thinking is less "consistent reply trees" and more "consistent moderated conversations". whereas the reply tree is an implicit structure that needs no approval to be part of, having an actual reified collection with an explicit owner/moderator allows us to authoritatively decide which certain posts are allowed into the conversation or not. anyone can reply to anything, but not anyone can Add into a Collection.
@trwnh imho these finer points are really hard for casual users to understand. And nobody wants to think hard when chatting casually. Avoid if possible I would recommend…