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Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

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Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#32

> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort. 0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column with…

In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?

Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#34
post #32

> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort. 0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column with…

In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?

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Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#37

Rather than rejecting e it should delete your account if you happen to enter one. And announce the fact in impact font on your followers' timelines.

That would be a great game. Try and trick others into using it while abstaining yourself.

Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#38
post #32

> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort. 0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column with…

In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?

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Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#39

This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federation. Hell I never thought of it before, but maybe now I'll want accounts on multiple servers now.

One of the constraints of GNU Social is that you shouldn't have two identical usernames on two separate instances. I did that and I don't know how to fix it. rocky1138@kwat.chat rocky1138@gnusocial.no Does Mastadon suffer the same problem?

Do you have a reference for that? It seems hard for a federated system to enforce such a constraint. And what would be the use? that's what the @domain is for.

Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

#40

This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federation. Hell I never thought of it before, but maybe now I'll want accounts on multiple servers now.

Fun yes, but it also points towards a future where you can have different flavors of a social network. There could be instances of Masto geared towards photography or visual art with large pictures, or geared towards sharing code, or geared towards any number of special needs. And all of them would be able to federate with each other.

As it stands we're all stuck on the same Twitter and the same FB. It's so limiting. I hope Mastodon and its descendants pull through and give us this better future.

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