ghorwood↙↙↙roses are red
violets are blue
to exit vim
:wq
violets are blue
to exit vim
:wq
Jorge StolfiI think that I shall never see
An end as cool as CTRL-X CTRL-C
@JorgeStolfi quality follow up!
Just could not let Emacs be bested...
@JorgeStolfi they keep saying that mastodon is like the old days of usenet, so why shouldn't we start up the editor wars again?
Resuna@ghorwood @JorgeStolfi mastodon is Usenet inside out. Usenet was all about dealing with hours and days of latency so every node carried every message. Mastodon is on a net where latency is measured in milliseconds so it's all about only sending messages that someone on the destination seems to be interested in.
Another big difference is that the Usenet was partitioned into a rather stable set of "bboards", each with curators who tried to weed out trash, spam, and out-of-topic content. Mastodon uses hashtags instead, but users can invent these freely, and no one is curating their "content".
@JorgeStolfi @ghorwood Actually newsgroups were mostly not moderated and the names were basically tags and were completely uncontrolled out of the big seven.
Source: I used to be one of those guys in news.groups who ran votes and stuff.
@JorgeStolfi @resuna well, there certainly a lot of unmoderated usenet subs in the day. but, even then, the level of behaviour was definitely higher than on some other social media networks today!
@ghorwood @JorgeStolfi Not as high as you may think. There were meowers and other kinds of spoilers, one group kept posting roadkill recipes between rec.food and alt.pets groups. Even big names engaged in newsgroup raids, like Rob Pike's attack on net.suicide under the guise of Elizabeth Bimmler. I watched one guy 'splaining C to Dennis Ritchie on comp.lang.c.
Then we got September 1983.
@JorgeStolfi @resuna i believe that september is still going on.
@JorgeStolfi @ghorwood The net.suicide raids were in 1984 or 1985. Nobody even tried to stop it.