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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

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Post by erkose »

whitepoplar wrote: post #24

If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well. I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like…

Mastodon is just an implementation of OStatus which has been around form many years.

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

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whitepoplar wrote: post #24

If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well. I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like…

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

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Post by milesrout »

whitepoplar wrote: post #24

If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well. I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like…

Who cares if 'they' come?

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

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Post by evanb »

legostormtroopr wrote: post #76
biot wrote: 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".

'Pray tell' has an 'e'.

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

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Post by Joeboy »

wielebny wrote: post #88
Joeboy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From oulipo.social's FAQ ( https://oulipo.social/about/more ): * No problm I'll writ lik this. No. Stop. Don't do this.

At the same page they describe themselves as: 'A Dcntralizd and Fdratd Social Ntwork'.

Fair point, but it's still a young program and no doubt a fix is coming soon.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

ZeroManArmy wrote: post #33
nightski wrote: post #30

So just lav out the "e"? The human brain would b prfctly capabl of undrstanding it.

That isn't why this is a thing. It's a way to be more fruitful with words.

Though it does give a good bar. If the posts altering word choice end up roundabout and less comprehensible than simply throwing out the letter, they are doing a poor job.

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

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Post by franzpeterstein »

rocky1138 wrote: post #27
orblivion wrote: post #13

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?

Mastodon have the same problem.

> https://social.tchncs.de/@voidnill > https://mastodon.cloud/@voidnill

are the same user (me) on two different instances.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

pacaro wrote: post #68
nebabyte wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What, gay? (I wasn't going to, but skimming his words, I can't spot what this is a followup to; so I thought I'd ask, though with that initial jocular quip.)

While "rhyme" unfortunately contains the letter "e", although not the sound; "quay" doesn't contain it, but does have the sound (it's pronounced "key") I couldn't think of another word that rhymes with e but doesn't contain it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay

These will be useful for your next game of Scrabble.

Ki, the plant Cordyline fruticosa from the Pacific islands and China, this word coming from Hawaiian.

Chi or qi, the life force in Chinese philosophy.

Li, a Chinese mile.

Mi and ti, represents the third and seventh notes of a major scale.

... maybe more, I've just found a page on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90#One_sy... (Fi, ghi, gi, shchi, ski (!) and maybe Twi.)

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