Text-Only Social Network

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 12:24 AM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #78

spiffytech wrote: post #36

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I don't think it was a technical decision. It sounds like a stylistic choice, I suspect in the sentiment of "everyone on the platform should be able to understand each other, no one should be locked off from interesting conversations due to a language barrier", and from there they selected the lowest common denominator language. To play devil's advocate, I don't think your exampled limitations are meaningful handicap…

MacBooks sold in the UK have a £ sign on them, where a # is found on a US keyboard. So in the country the English language originated in, you're not allowed to use a character on the default keyboard. (And that's just one -- the € is on there too, among others.) We're not talking obscure key combos, we're talking characters in use everywhere you go every day. Would you really appreciate not being able to use the $ ch…

Post by leephillips » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 12:28 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #76

leephillips wrote: post #44

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Stay tuned for my uppercase-only social network. Also, we don’t allow the letter Z nor semicolons, as they are rarely used.

Wanna try making that the letter E? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

Post by inopinatus » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 12:44 AM UTC

ehsankia wrote: post #92

joe_the_user wrote: post #74

When you say "social network", do you mean Twitter Clone? It seems like developers in particular have come to regard Twitter as archetypal social networks despite it's many problems and the way the user doesn't really much ability to define their own social graph. IE, N-character limit is still a determiner of Twitter (poisonous) discourse quality, just for example and Twitter isn't something most people enjoy being…

The character limit is the last of Twitters issue, in my opinion. I think the #1 issue is the retweet model, it leads to people just brainlessly sharing low effort content with a single click. It's similar to how fake news and misleading content thrive on Facebook. But notice how Instagram where it's impossible to easily re-share content (well, you can now in stories) is far less toxic.

Post by jchook » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 12:47 AM UTC

unityByFreedom wrote: post #85

blotter_paper wrote: post #82

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From the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only , public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks. [...] >Limitations >480 characters per reply ASCII only because it works everywhere I could see this being a xenophobic thing, but I could also see it being more about the limited character set…

Where does Unicode not work? It’s been everywhere for years