FeralRobots<p>To paraphrase <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeBox</span></a>, all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/analogies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analogies</span></a> are wrong, but some are useful.</p><p>Lot of folks involved in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediverseSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseSearch</span></a> discussions get really hung up on the VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS of their analogies. It's not a coffee shop or a pedestrian zone, it's a social network. It's literally unlike any of the things folks are analogizing with.</p>