@anth (#ptxp5ca) how do you envisage this playing out and evolving overtime?

(#ptxp5ca) With the finger server specifically? No idea, it's a toy. I'd honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

(#ptxp5ca) I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.

@anth (#ptxp5ca) yeah with the finger service specifically. Several folks have brought up the idea of using a plan file and finger but of course this means that you actually have to have a finger diamond and local user accounts for this to be useful unless you’re thinking about building a custom finger server implementation entirely

@anth (#ptxp5ca) i’m just not sure how useful it would be for me per se

(#ptxp5ca) No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it'd be fun to add, but doesn't replace anything you're doing.

(#ptxp5ca) Yeah that's what I was thinking about... The "utility" of finger itself. I mean in a large multi-user pod it _might_ be useful? Maybe 🤔 But then against that notion goes against everything I've come to learn, know and believe about "social media". That is... It doesn't scale beyond a certain "size". So keep pods small 🤣

(#ptxp5ca) I don't think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.

(#ptxp5ca) @anth Oh I see what you're saying... Go on... What kind of fun things can we do with finger? I could build one and we could see? 🤔

(#ptxp5ca) It's a very simple protocol afterall 🤣