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 threadBianca KastlNov 8, 2022
@bastianallgeier Not to forget the weird times a little bit later when someone invented Retweets RT @ which was weird because you further reduced the remaining chars.
Show threadTom AnypuppiesNov 8, 2022
@bkastl @bastianallgeier I know that I first thought "RT" was shor for "reply to" and I used it in that sense for a bit, confusing my 5 readers back then… until a friendly soul (rip b00gie) nudged me in the right direction 😃
Show threadSteve MacNov 8, 2022
@webrocker @bkastl @bastianallgeier
I remember back in the 90s in my first foray into internet chat rooms I though LOL meant lots of love 😮
Show threadKatie LeeNov 8, 2022
@Macros42 @webrocker @bkastl @bastianallgeier me too! Because it did in the 80s!
Show threadmoopet
@shinykatie @Macros42 I remember an intermediate time where it meant "loads of laughs" and getting really confused when people emoted it because grammar
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