So this happened on #birdsite
So funny story. That Latin comes from Alcuin. The full quote reads:
"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."
Which translates to:
Never listen to those who say "the voice of the people is the voice of God," since the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness.
What if the universe is set up just like the Fediverse, but we don’t know about the existence of any other life because our Earth instance was preemptively blocked for hateful conduct.
Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.