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Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev

I saw someone complain about issues and comments from a user nuked from GitHub being deleted, and fwiw data fragility is exactly why I don't like Tangled (in addition to the hilariously bad `op` lexicon) Tangled ironically has a fitting name for a tangled mess of poorly portable data

Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev

Issues, PRs, and comments to my projects should be written to *my* PDS (or a designated service for collaborative data) directly, not aggregated after the fact from an append-only log that's extremely fragile because its scattered across the entire Internet

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Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev

That's why I think email based flows are still vastly superior to current atproto-based stuff, because they have a topology that makes sense to begin with. Ironically, tangled is just a tangled mess of data that's all over the place because the primitive just isn't the right one

Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev

Collaborative work isn't a bunch of people doing a thing in their corner like microblogging is The individuals aren't the central entity, the project is. People come and go, but the project is the root node upon which things are built

Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev

Now, aggregating these projects from a decentralised network of data servers to make a service à-la-github *does* make sense But constructing projects as a view of scattered data is just a bad design that's not portable and very fragile