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DIP-260 Remove outdated entries from the glossary, and clarify others #270

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# Glossary

* **Activity Content** - The linked content connected to an "Announcement"
* **Announcement** - An item of data, typically an image or note, posted to the blockchain via a "Batch Publication"
* **Bad actor** - A user intentionally using the application for bad-faith or illegal purposes
* **Batch Publication** - A collection of Announcements
* **Bot** - An automated account, sometimes malicious but often providing some service ("Hey Alexa, what's the weather?")
* **Consumer** - Someone who reads content from social media
* **Contract address** - The unique number associated with a smart contract posted on the blockchain
* **Hash Collision** - The vanishingly unlikely possibility of a hash providing the same output for two different inputs
* **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
* **Hash** - A string of characters generated from a hash function, see "Hash function"
* **Identity Contract** - The smart contract used to store a user's delegated public addresses and permissions, see "Contract address"
* **Publisher** - The contract that posts new content from a publisher to the blockchain through batch publications
* **Store** - A means of keeping messages or data for an extended period of time
* **User** - A human using our application. [See article for an exception](https://time.com/4008832/17-dogs-to-follow-on-instagram/)
* **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.
* **Announcement** - Content, or references to content, that communicate user activity to the network.
* **Application** - A computer program that helps a User interact with a DSNP system
* **Batch Publication** - A collection of Announcements bundled together into a single file using the Parquet format
* **Consumer** - An application or user who reads content from a DSNP system
* **DSNP System** - A consensus system (and its surrounding services) that enables DSNP operations and generates DSNP state change records
* **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
* **User** - A human using a DSNP application. [See article for an exception](https://time.com/4008832/17-dogs-to-follow-on-instagram/)