Šimon TóthSigh, all these people, "I will keep using the hashtags I used on Twitter no matter what they mean on Mastodon"... yeah, let's make the experience as painful as possible for everyone... thank you... it is appreciated...
StoneAIit's not them... it's you
@StoneAI Interesting. I doubt that the ability to follow specific topics is a "me problem", but I guess time will tell.
Get you an education:
* Polysemy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy
* Understanding Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Grammar - https://amyrey.web.unc.edu/classes/ling-101-online/tutorials/understanding-prescriptive-vs-descriptive-grammar/
* someone's testimony - Why I Stopped Being the Grammar Police
@StoneAI What irony that you are arguing the opposite.
dontony@simontoth mastodon is not just tech people. and we don't want it to be just tech people. we need to get out of the tech bubble and into the real world, where ABI and CTAD can mean different things to different people. if you really want to differentiate, maybe cpp can be #cpplang
granted SFINAE might not have uses out of cpp
@dontony This doesn't have to do with tech vs non-tech.
Are you telling me that someone interested in the minority meaning of a tag will be willing to get all the non-relevant messages under that tag? That doesn't make sense to me.
And alright, maybe these people are attempting a "hostile takeover" of a tag, making their meaning the majority. 🤷
@simontoth it's not about "majority" or "minority". the bigger group shouldn't win or lose based on numbers. or who came first. and language like "hostile takeover" isn't helping your cause. maybe we do need to talk and come to a consensus about what topic "owns" a tagged acronym. but that has to come from a place from understanding on both sides about who can be more accommodating, specially with something that takes 4 more characters to type, like cpplang. not one of "I was here first!"
@dontony Hmm, interesting. So you would follow a tag if a majority of the content wasn't of relevance to you?