mia (developer mode) (@mia)

@snacks @lucy the idea is to, ideally, never store or transmit random blobs of data without identifying metadata

in general, metadata is not handled well on any popular system. we have dozens of audio tag formats, xmp + sidecar files, .DS_Store/.directory and others, extended file attributes etc. etc.
it’s terrible. there’s got to be a better way, and maybe files and folders are just a bad concept to design computer storage after