davidism

The biggest objection to switching to 3 has been that library support hasn't been there. It's pretty clear that despite reservations about 3, the support is there now. Getting major libraries in the scientific community to focus attention at three can only be good for improvements in support, performance, and adoption.

Even sub-communites don't solve the problem. There are certain subreddits notorious for dogpiling on posts in other subreddits. The article mentions this indirectly by observing that what starts out on one platform can easily migrate across communities, even to communities you're not aware of.

There's a mismatch in scale: the number and diversity of members on platforms like Twitter is huge, but the ability to moderate is tiny. It would be interesting to see if a system could detect the dogpile effect, by looking at common phrases, checking if many users messaging one user all follow a common user, etc. and offer some sort of temporary relief until a controversy dies down. On the other hand, that's not actually solving the root of the problem.

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

There is one obvious way: strings are encoded to bytes, bytes are decoded to strings.

It's not replaced, both are perfectly valid. And this addition also exists in Python 2.