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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

#101
post #48

Translation of posting without using 'E': It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many humans find it joyful. Mastodon boffins did it again. A particular boffin going by initials M.R. works as a digital craftsman at a corporation with initials I.A. (that has http archival capability), did craft a social app oulipo.social with an odd quirk: said a…

thats genuinely impressive...

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

#102
post #82

Link to the actual "social sharing hub", which is a mod of Mastodon: https://oulipo.social/about

That's a login form. Can you not look at posts on Mastodon without signing up for it? That sounds fatal for adoption.

No you can't. I also think that's a pity, although I don't doubt this policy has its fans.

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

#103

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?

Mind elaborating what problems are you facing now?

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

#104
post #44

This website is slugish as hell. Every time I scroll my cpu usage jumps to ~30% and I have ~2FPS, using the latest version of Firefox. On Chrome the CPU still spikes, but it's no nearly as bad.

If you have the time could you try reproducing it on the Firefox Nightly? I'm able to repro on v51 but not on Nightly.

I just tried it out and it's very smooth with Nightly. The CPU spikes, but it doesn't lag at all.

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

#105

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?

You can address them differently if you add the server like this @rocky1138@kwat.chat @rocky1138@gnusocial.no, at least on gnusocial

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

#107
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was okay with using "imo" and "lol" in words in this discussion as full forms also lack taboo glyphs, and I concur that such with said glyph is tantamount to a violation.

A good point and strong advocacy, though @mus, who thought up this particular handiwork and built it from scratch (not all of lipography, just this journalistically-fascinating lipography discussion forum), and also said in this discussion, supra , "this kind of broad situation is hard to fix" and so on, was so bold today as to post "300" in a toot purporting to follow lipographic norms. Ipsa dixit ! But if you say "…

Words do not contain glyphs during annunciation. A man pronouncing a word is not a man pronouncing glyph 1, glyph 2, glyph 3 but sound 1, sound 2, sound 3.

So 300 is okay: I do not recoil from a foul glyph in it.

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

#108
post #48

Translation of posting without using 'E': It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many humans find it joyful. Mastodon boffins did it again. A particular boffin going by initials M.R. works as a digital craftsman at a corporation with initials I.A. (that has http archival capability), did craft a social app oulipo.social with an odd quirk: said a…

Pray tell, fifth Symbol of what? Did you try to put words to say "fifth symbol of an Anglo-variant of latin-script".

It's about using only 4 of the 5 vocals (of Latin script). But “five” contains an “e”.

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

#109
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say that using a word such as "spacx" is in spirit.

Mars-bound Musk

This is good! I guess a bit of thought can go a long way toward good workarounds. I'd hazard that it is harder if a taboo glyph is in both particular nouns though.

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

#110

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.

Mastodon is not GNU Social.
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