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Gravy enables us to externalize what is tasty from inside the beast...
TIL one can annotate Mastodon posts on social.coop using Hypothesis. See it in action using this direct link to an annotation on the post above: https://hyp.is/-PrDCI-7Ee6pL8dRHiloXQ/social.coop/@xolotl/111461712468675368
@xolotl Oh my goodness. I will never be able to unthink this.
@xolotl Why would we use a centralized annotation service on a decentralized network?
@Downes Not sure who the "we" is — got a mouse in your pocket? 
One answer is Hypothesis doesn't have to be centralized. Your mouse could be running their own annotation server via the open-source code.
@xolotl I meant, "Why would anybody...?"
True, I suppose, they could set up a separate server alongside their Mastodon instance. But in this case, it uses the centralized hypothes.is service
@Downes Why do you use the centralized mastodon.social service?
@xolotl Because kit's not centralized. I connect with people from all over the fediverse. I post something here, you see it there. Or I use my account on cosocial.ca when I feel like it, and it can still be seen here.
But if you're not using hypothes.is you're not seeing annotations posted on hypothes.is - there is no federated annotation service (might be a good idea, but hypothes.is isn't it).
@Downes it is true that Hypothesis is not right now a federated service in the way that Mastodon is, but if I understand correctly, that kind of federation has long been a part of what Hypothesis has been working for, starting with helping to establish a W3C standard for social annotation. Still work to be done.