Bastian AllgeierNov 8, 2022

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Show threadSaxxon🦊
@bastianallgeier Tweets via SMS were absolutely a thing, and that's how I used it on the go! I won't forget the SMS number, 40404. This was before I had any "smart" mobile devices.
Nov 8, 2022 at 3:19pmWeb
Show threadwolfie 🐺Nov 9, 2022
@Saxxon @bastianallgeier yeah that's what I came to say too, I only signed up to Twitter because I could send SMS to update it when I was away from the internet (unthinkable now!) and then had a daily digest post of my tweets that would post to my Livejournal 😄