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@futurebird @JessTheUnstill @ireneista Every party-line Republican vote since 2013 is downstream of the successful* assassination-attempt of Gabby Giffords.

(* the goal wasn't murder, it was removal as a political actor. Which entirely succeeded.)

@evan Oh! Sorry, I thought that was like, an example of what you were thinking about in the conversation ij general. I didn't realize you meant it as example-of-existing-usage, my bad.

@evan I know I mean, functionally.

If I draw something that's a map of Ellenville and label it Springfield it still works as a map of Ellenville.

(And like, it's a (maybe, I assume) map of the developer communities/social landscape around the software construction /of Fediverse software in particular/, so arguably that's not an inaccurate label on it...)

@evan But, probably for what I think you want this for, it should 100% be instance.

Again being a parody of myself, but with acknowledgements to Virginia Shea (1995):

> "The ActivityPub Matrix" refers to all the computers in the world that can exchange JSON-LD Objects.
> "The Fediverse" means almost the same thing. It's sort of a psychic superset of the ActivityPub Matrix -- it's the psychic space in which people interact when they communicate via ActivityPub. "Cyberspace" and "the Fediverse" are used synonymously in this book.

@evan I think that's a map of the development ecosystem and of developer communities/the social construction of software,

so not nothing but very distinct from what making Instances nodes would be a map of.

@evan
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "software", but potentially "Everything but Topics".
There probably shouldn't be Only One Diagram.