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| -* **Activity Content** - The linked content connected to an "Announcement" |
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| -* **Announcement** - An item of data, typically an image or note, posted to the blockchain via a "Batch Publication" |
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| -* **Bad actor** - A user intentionally using the application for bad-faith or illegal purposes |
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| -* **Batch Publication** - A collection of Announcements |
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| -* **Bot** - An automated account, sometimes malicious but often providing some service ("Hey Alexa, what's the weather?") |
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| -* **Consumer** - Someone who reads content from social media |
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| -* **Contract address** - The unique number associated with a smart contract posted on the blockchain |
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| -* **Hash Collision** - The vanishingly unlikely possibility of a hash providing the same output for two different inputs |
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| -* **Hash function** - A cryptographic function whose output is effectively unique for any given input without any information from the input being accessible in the output |
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| -* **Hash** - A string of characters generated from a hash function, see "Hash function" |
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| -* **Identity Contract** - The smart contract used to store a user's delegated public addresses and permissions, see "Contract address" |
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| -* **Publisher** - The contract that posts new content from a publisher to the blockchain through batch publications |
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| -* **Store** - A means of keeping messages or data for an extended period of time |
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| -* **User** - A human using our application. [See article for an exception](https://time.com/4008832/17-dogs-to-follow-on-instagram/) |
| 3 | +* **Activity Content** - User-generated social networking content in a JSON format defined by the Activity Streams 2.0 specification with DSNP extensions. Some DSNP Announcements contain the URL and hash for an Activity Content document. |
| 4 | +* **Announcement** - Content, or references to content, that communicate user activity to the network. |
| 5 | +* **Application** - A computer program that helps a User interact with a DSNP system |
| 6 | +* **Batch Publication** - A collection of Announcements bundled together into a single file using the Parquet format |
| 7 | +* **Consumer** - An application or user who reads content from a DSNP system |
| 8 | +* **DSNP System** - A consensus system (and its surrounding services) that enables DSNP operations and generates DSNP state change records |
| 9 | +* **Hash** - A string of bytes generated from a hash function, a cryptographic function whose output is effectively unique for any given input without any information from the input being accessible in the output |
| 10 | +* **User** - A human using a DSNP application. [See article for an exception](https://time.com/4008832/17-dogs-to-follow-on-instagram/) |
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