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“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging

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JohnBooty wrote: post #101
secabeen wrote: post #92

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LJ also had a culture of longer, more introspective posts. Facebook encourages the light, picture-plus-a-quick comment post because they're easy to make. LJ was much more comfortable for deeper engagement.

Yeah! I don't know where to do something like that today! (Where it would actually be read, and a sufficient number of my friends might do similar things)

Likewise. My wife loved posts like that (both to post, and to read), and we havne't found a similar space either.

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aasasd wrote: post #120
chrisfinazzo wrote: post #118

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Has anyone ever tried to measure share among the various text editors on the Mac? The vi/emacs crowd makes a bunch of noise because it messes with their workflows, but the rest of us just soldier on with BBEdit/VSCode/Sublime/etc.

Funny thing is, with proper use of touch typing you wouldn't need the top row: Esc is either Ctrl-[, or some map it to Caps Lock. And hardcore Vim users are definitely supposed to be deep in touch typing. So this ‘noise’ is actually just people making fun of Vim's idiosyncrasies in light of the touch bar thing. Emacs, afaik, doesn't need the top row at all.

Touch typing would be OK, if Apple's keyboards (going back into the 90's) didn't suck, because flat keys are terrible. Almost all keyboards have gone this way save for the mechanical nerds, so I might take another look at that soon. Emacs is powerful, but Stallman's love of Ctrl prefixed commands and hatred for mice make it a challenge and Vi's key combinations are obtuse as hell (compounded by Apple's hardware).

I'm more than happy with a real Mac application like BBEdit, but it's interesting to see how the other half lives.

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