Honestly no, and that’s okay?

Early web2 websites like MySpace did become “popular”. But IMO one of its layckings was trying out web2 by evolving something from web1’s static websites.

Where Facebook is the platform that popularized web2 in a way that worked with what web2 was and fundamentally build something new off of that.

I think Lemmy/mastatdon/most current federated clones that exist today won’t last all that long. Something that is built with federation to its core and instead of just being a feature, is central to its offering.

What is that? Not a god damn clue.

But I’m excited to try it out.

Disclaimer: not a historian. Born in the early 90s so a lot of my judgement above is bassed off of foggy memories and are my opinions and only opions.

Encrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.

Correct but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.

My whole point is that a “straight done”, in general, doesn’t exist in the first place. Because in general definitions are actually really hard.

It’s not that it’s important to me. It’s that I’ve spent many parts of my day on the phone with the bank, and never should be taken for more than an asshole on the internet. Sorry if you thought I was more invested than that.

Except here you said here

https://lemmy.ml/comment/13839553

That they all must be equal.

Tangents all be equal to the point would be exponential I thinks. So I assume you mean they must all be equal.

Granted I assumed constant, because that’s what actually produces a “straight” line. If it’s not, then cos/sin also fall out as “straight line”.

So I’ve either stretched your definition of straight line to include a circle, or we’re stretching “straight line”

But then your definition of a straight line produces two different shapes.

Starting with the same definition of straight for both. Y(x) such that y’(x) = C produces a function of cx+b.

This produces a line

However if we have the radius r as a function of a (sorry I’m on my phone and don’t have a Greek keyboard).

R(a) such that r’(a)=C produces ra +d

However that produces a circle, not a line.

So your definition of straight isn’t true in general.

Sorry that’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying a line with constant tangent would be a circle not a line.

Let me try another way, a function with constant first derivative in polar coordinates, would draw a circle in Cartesian

I’m saying that the tangent of a straight line in Cartesian coordinates, projected into polar, does not have constant tangent. A line with a constant tangent in polar, would look like a circle in Cartesian.

Only true in Cartesian coordinates.

A straight line in polar coordinates with the same tangent would be a circle.

EDIT: it is still a “straight” line. But then the result of a square on a surface is not the same shape any more.