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 I haven't tried this, but I think it would be a good #GPT programming pattern:

If you are in a situation where you might create a DSL, instead create a simpler system using JSON and an execution loop. Like {"action": "click", "target": "#button"} if you are doing some testing.

Create a document/prompt describing the JSON and your "DSL" will instead be the natural language prompts to GPT. GPT can also decompile. Some interesting migration patterns may emerge. 
 What if, 15ya, Mozilla had decided to host/subsidize a bunch of cheap protocol based services (we... 
 @0d461113 They are so, so, so scared of hosting user content, it could never happen.

Handling user content requires all kinds of compromises and judgement calls and Mozilla is simply not equipped to do that kind of work. I wish it was! 
 @fcbd4d4b @5f30f3a0 @0c3a0f82 are there sites that turn rss feeds into activitypub generally? 

I'm assuming they'd need to add functionality, and that functionally would be attached to the proxy site and not the original rss/blog, but that seems ok