For apps where you can reply to messages and then you can jump through the list of replies (like #Signal), I would like a feature where you hide some or all of these "threads". At its simplest, this feature would be a toggle that would hide any message that is a reply to another message; then you would only see the roots of threads. There could then be a way to take a time-ordered walk through the messages in a thread.

#feature_request

I remind myself that there are often (and perhaps always) many ways to do a task. There may not be a "recommended way" that even a substantial plurality would commend; we can freely play with possible strategies, and we may even invent (a new?) one.

#learn_early

At a recent conflict engagement meeting, I somehow forgot that conflict and conflict engagement are not the same thing. One of my communities has a couple of members mired in a caustic conflict, and when we met (without these members) to discuss our conflict engagement system, I was worried about us diving into their conflict.

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#conflict_engagement

It's so easy for things to fall through the cracks, for information to become orphaned. I want information systems that actively help us to identify "old" information and evaluate whether that information needs attention or whether it can be pruned.

Some features that (I imagine) help with this include easy and robust metadata management and attached review dates.

#information_systems

Saw a friend post analytically about Bigfoot, and it got me thinking about storytelling, mythology, and belief. How do we evaluate what we or others really believe? If someone claims they believe something, what does that really mean for them? To what degree does that belief, or that claim, impact their actions? Is the importance in the claim (such as for purposes of group identity) or in the (other) ways the claim warps reality?

#mythology #belief

As so often happens, I see the Mastodon API, and now I want to play with it.

#development