#looking seems like a profile flag and one that should be hard for strangers to search. And yet, some process has to know in order to nudge people together somehow.
Is this an overlap between hosting in the server sense and the human sense? Every couple of weeks servers hosting the Helpful Introductions protocol do a pairwise check to see if they have “looking” members who have liked each others stuff a lot, or liked the same things?
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clew
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2026-03-23 18:59:50 UTC
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2026-03-23 18:59:50 UTCEvent JSON
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