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Stable identifiers were common decades before karma or likes.


Yup, I used to use them back then.


You said stable identifiers come with karma and likes. But you know they come without also.


I mean - yes? I understand what a stable identifier is. Having a unique user ID in a database doesn't magically enable likes on all features. But for the purpose of this discussion I limited my opinion to "public services", i.e. services with a social aspect, which overwhelmingly have this mechanic (to such an absurd extent that I can "like" payments made by people I don't know on Venmo).


> I understand what a stable identifier is.

You do not understand what core is apparently.


From what I understand "core" is a central part of a fruit.




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