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@BenSouthwood Yes, I have since inception. News sucks, seems anti-rss (surprise) but you get a lot of pubs included. Music is mostly okay unless the latest changes to the UI are infuriating. iCloud storage works without issue but is sometimes inscrutably slow, and, along with Music, will sometimes claim that items are not available or up to date when the file system says otherwise. TV is quite good, content is almost too good. I would prefer more movies to series but what are you gonna do? Photos works very well, although out of system archiving is not straightforward. Arcade has some delightful diversions; playful and beautiful to behold, but not what most gamers think about when they think about gaming. Family works pretty well but shouldn’t be called Family. Keychain is better than any 3rd party service, now. I might sound a bit negative about it all, but there are lots and lots of other ostensibly small details that together provide (me with) real value.

@baldur Thank you. This is great material. Hitchen’s Razor applies here: “That which can be submitted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

Sidenote: [ I moved a comment about url copying to its own post. ]

@danlyke ...sigh, yes, of course it is not possible to peer into an email-handle’s soul and infer tolerance of, if not compatibility with, communal prerogatives...

...so we’ll have to solve that....😂🤣🤓🤩😎...and then tomorrow afternoon...

@danlyke seeing that last sentence staring back at me it seemed increasingly passiv/aggro...so...ahem

It is unavoidably true that many individuals need anonymity for legitimate existential reasons, but the nonsense us 1%ers concern ourselves with has little existential consequence, no matter how much some claim it must.

But it does have some, and it’s critical to limit this as we are able. And the way justice is dispensed in our societies requires an identity incontrovertibly linked to an action, because intent matters. And this identity must exist outside of the arena of action which is subject to the activities of enforcement, otherwise, well, look around.

I hope that is not too obtuse. Framed appositively: Bad actors must appear as not bad actors to be bad actors. If you let them in before you check you already lost.

These markks wanna hang. — Spark Master Tape

@bkryer ...and if you started to correct this mis-quote, but decided better against it, then I think you've understood what I’m getting at.

@danlyke
re: equity filtering, cool. perhaps also community self description as an adjunct to volume of and key matches in posts.

re: identity vs identifiers, the identity one creates inside a system, and the identifier one uses to get inside the system in the first place, are distinct.

Our personal identities, that first kind, are hyper-fractal soul flowers, in bloom, all the time. That our societies, as retro-grade as some elements doggedly remain, seem generally to approve and embrace people as people, no matter how unfamiliar, is pretty good stuff.

But I am bkryer, and I am bkryer everywhere because, well, everywhere I have ever been I have never not been me! I am happily responsible for my utterances and actions, off and online. This is not true of everyone, though, as far as I can tell.

@danlyke Cheers. Equity as an on/off encourages me to think beyond the idealization to what would actually exist if "equity" were achieved? Different feelings? Statistical constants indicating good health? It’s tricky, maybe more than rocking rhymes right on time. And 'reliable identity' even more so. As you point out, this is quite distinct from popular current usage of the term.

So, yeah, It’s my contention that before long demand for a uuid/ssn/drvlic/passport, yes, a multi-pass Lilu, will exceed the surface tension of a thousand customer loyalty cards and, like mobile phones, okay like iPhones, before it, suddenly will be everywhere all at once.

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