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@aral @gargron @byterhymer it's a standard term. You'd need to persuade a large number of people to change a large amount of source code if you wanted to call users something else. The chaos might be considerable. Also being a user doesn't preclude being a producer simultaneously.
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@dbrz I'm not sure that calling users people would work, because sometimes they might not be. i.e. users can be other systems, or used purely for isolation of privileges.
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@dbrz of course it's true that the majority of users are people, but #notallusers
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@dbrz I expect that this is why when the first generation of Unix hackers were emerging from the primordial slime they decided on "user account" rather than "person account".
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@dbrz I don't think it's so much about stupidity (although sometimes it is) as about affinity. The degree to which you share priors and narratives. In monolithic systems like Twitter users with very little affinity are forced together and then of course clash because their narratives are too divergent. To have a good community the network topology needs to match. One size doesn't fit all.
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