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Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by henriquemaia »

inopinatus wrote: post #97
ehsankia wrote: post #92

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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.

An honest UI might use the word “echo” rather than “retweet”.

And then it would be filed under a "chamber" category on your profile. Just as a friendly reminder of where you were heading...

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by herbstein »

chrismartin wrote: post #105

We can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there. https://subreply.com/about "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." What does "untrustworthy" mean in this cont…

And as with most moderation, how explicit can "I" be when advocating for genocide before getting booted? Do I have to just not spout slurs, or do I have to hide it even better?

I think moderators would do nicely to consider that not all negativity manifests as "niceness". If I were to say "trans women are just gay men trying to score straight men" (a real opinion of some) there's nothing contained just within that statement that makes it "un-nice", but the thought expressed is exceedingly vile. If someone else then replies "You're a horrible bigot" that would very much be a break with "niceness" or civility - is that allowed?

Moderation is harder than it looks, and I've seen forums descent into racist hellholes because moderators only cared about civility and niceness. This has slowly become my number one concern with new forums and places of discussion.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by chrismorgan »

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…

Banning such symbols is actually an interesting concept: “$ is ambiguous, please use AUD, CAD, NZD, USD, &c.”

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by numpad0 »

jbaudanza wrote: post #60

I wanted to see how it would handle non-ascii text so I typed 안녕하세요 and it romanized it to annyeonghaseyo. (This is "hello" in Korean). I did not expect that. I really like the idea of a text-only social network, so I hope this takes off. I think the author should consider supporting other languages though. Seeing romanized text isn't very helpful to people that actually want to read or write in other character sets.…

I tried カレーライス, 高田馬場, ﾀﾃｲｽｶﾝﾅﾆﾗｾ, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. Results were "kareraisu", "Gao Tian Ma Chang", and error message "Use spaces or shorter words" for the latter ones. Something funky is going on.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by jiggunjer »

mysterydip wrote: post #45
crazygringo wrote: post #27

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So... even if it's English-only, I can't quickly refer to a price in £ or € or ¥? Or that it's 90°F out? I can't talk about my fiancée? I can't even use “proper quotes”? Yikes. These days, talking about the "benefits" of ASCII-only is like talking about the "benefits" of HTTP over HTTPS, or the benefits of dial-up as opposed to broadband. No thanks. It's exclusionary and for zero good technical reason. For every reas…

Those are all in the 8 bit "extended" ASCII table, aren't they?

> Using the term "extended ASCII" on its own is sometimes criticized, because it can be mistakenly interpreted to mean that the ASCII standard has been updated to include more than 128 characters or that the term unambiguously identifies a single encoding, neither of which is the case.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by irrational »

ponker wrote: post #158
jimhi wrote: post #155

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I had to look up all the people you named and am still not clear who they are or why you know them exactly.

I don’t, I just recognize them as commenters and can tie their comments into their previous comments.

That might be one difference. I read comments, but not who wrote them. I don't even know who I am replying to right now ;-) It is like shouting into the dark.
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