Not saying I'd ever do it, as my skill level is pretty darn poor, but if I ever started my own instance (for lulz), it'd be something like derps.social, be limited to 144 characters, no markdown, no media, and no URLs.

I think that would be a fun experiment. Pure artistic restraint. A little like Madame Vastra's one word test.

cc: @amin @kev @kev

@rl_dane

dolphin.town is better. :(

@amin @rl_dane Olipo is also fun :D

@sotolf @amin

What's an "olipo?"

@rl_dane @amin you can't apply unlawful writing wordparts on olipo, only almost all.

@sotolf @amin

What in the world did you just say? I have no idea what you're talking about. XD

@rl_dane @amin

https://oulipo.social/about

I forgot a symbol, sorry :)

Oulipo.social (Mark II)

A spot for chatting with a lipogrammatic constraint. 25 out of 26 symbols in latin script comply.

Mastodon on oulipo.social

@sotolf @amin

WHOA! That's exactly like Gadsby! Impressive!!

@sotolf @amin

NOW I grok this composition you did on top of this. XD

DANG, that is hard!!!

@rl_dane @amin Haha, it's not that light of a task no ;)

@sotolf @amin

Indubitably, man/woman must aquit 'is mind to rigorous assays to accomplish this!

This is a good aid:

aiksaurus person |tr "," "\n" |tr -dc "[a-z]\n" |grep -v "^$" |sort -u |grep -vi e

#gadsby

@rl_dane @amin you used a taboo symbol in that script, that's not okay. It's also not as natural, so it's not as good a post I think.

@sotolf @amin

Ho, I'm 0x00FF00 to this, and that community says that taboo-symbols ok in URLs, so I thought computation blocks also ok.

@rl_dane @amin no no, that is in your toot, and that is not a url, low cost trick is no fun at all. It's cool to add skill in this task quickly with only brain thinking.

@rl_dane @sotolf

Only if you do not fully commit to rigor and honor.

@rl_dane @sotolf

β€œβ€˜is”? That is a hack, I am convicted.

@amin @sotolf

A hack can function as a good aid.

@rl_dane @sotolf

I had this conversation with @eb when he couldn’t include β€œe” in his liberapay password because it’s his username.

@rl_dane @sotolf

It is only difficult for you who lack imagination.

@amin

Wait, is that an actual instance, or do you mean just as a name?

@amin

Ok, that is a very weird instance. XD

It's like someone read Gadsby and wanted revenge for the letter E.
XD

@sotolf

Gadsby (novel) - Wikipedia