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Sep. 12th, 2024 02:59 pmOne of the things I really liked about cohost was the flexibility to write long posts, use formatting ranging from the mundane (italics!) to the CSS crime level, put in links, photos, whatever. Or write a shitchost in the title in 140 characters or fewer. Whatever.
And every time I think this, I then think, well, is that good? Might it not be more "optimal" to separate different functions? And then I remember what happens in real life. Is twitter great for writing long posts? Very not, but people always tweetstormed up long threads that might or might not be readable in order. Bluesky goes out of its way to make reading long threads harder. Don't allow italics or bold and people will post in weird math symbols, which then provokes the evergreen discourse about how That Is Bad. Just let people fucking use bold!
I'm on a Mastodon instance with a 1000 character limit and oftentimes I can get my whole thought into that, but there's that character counter ticking down, urging me to be a bit less clear, drop that other point because is my other point worth another hundred letters? Why do we do this? I get that the Dril tweets would not be better if they were ten times longer, but two points: One, most of us are not Dril. Two, there's more to life than Dril tweets.
Lots of us loved the really complicated CSS crimes, but what I saw a lot more of was just people getting a bit of whimsy out in rainbow letters or something simple, and you could do that. It was nice. Didn't have to post in math symbols or put text in GIFs.
And every time I think this, I then think, well, is that good? Might it not be more "optimal" to separate different functions? And then I remember what happens in real life. Is twitter great for writing long posts? Very not, but people always tweetstormed up long threads that might or might not be readable in order. Bluesky goes out of its way to make reading long threads harder. Don't allow italics or bold and people will post in weird math symbols, which then provokes the evergreen discourse about how That Is Bad. Just let people fucking use bold!
I'm on a Mastodon instance with a 1000 character limit and oftentimes I can get my whole thought into that, but there's that character counter ticking down, urging me to be a bit less clear, drop that other point because is my other point worth another hundred letters? Why do we do this? I get that the Dril tweets would not be better if they were ten times longer, but two points: One, most of us are not Dril. Two, there's more to life than Dril tweets.
Lots of us loved the really complicated CSS crimes, but what I saw a lot more of was just people getting a bit of whimsy out in rainbow letters or something simple, and you could do that. It was nice. Didn't have to post in math symbols or put text in GIFs.
