Hey there @bobcorrigan . Always a pleasure to see the dapper dog make an appearance. I’m still figuring out how I’m going to be doing things, but you might want to also follow me as @theotherbrook
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@dredmorbius Would you argue longer or shorter? It seems to me one of the problems with shorter is it would encourage people to repost *a lot* for visibility. Better to let things linger and put some thought into discoverability instead.
@dredmorbius That's definitely true. I'm thinking a defined public timeline expiration period, say 36 or 48 hours, combined with the option to easily save to a clipping folder only viewable by participants in the clipped thread. Objects (whether posts or threads) in the clipping folder could be reactivated by reposted to the public timeline, as long as all participant accounts are active and haven't blocked the clipped object.
Clearly, I've thought more about this than even I realize...
An edit button, an edit button, my kingdom for an edit button.
@dredmorbius I was late to Usenet, probably getting started on it no more than a couple months before the fateful September. Casual Reddit user, and occasional chan lurker out of sociological interest. Fertile ground for emerging culture, because it's heavily fertilized.
I keep thinking my perfect social service would merge timeline from Twitter, auto-expiring posts from chans, single sign-on + anon accounts from Reddit, and a loosely-coupled long-form capability from Medium.
@dredmorbius I've tried to explain Eternal September to people who came online later, and they can't quite comprehend. But it's a problem every service undergoes if it's successful.
@dredmorbius When you mention Usenet's "suggested successors" are you thinking Reddit and the chans which to some extent follow its organizational principles, or are you thinking of projects more like Mastodon, which to some extent follow its architectural principles?
@evrenk Right. In American English "toot" is very commonly used to mean fart, so that's why I was wondering.
I'm almost tempted to start tooting lots of company names, just so I can experience them not inanely replying to me.
As I see more toots en français on the federated timeline, I can't help but wonder if they are "toots" or "pets." Has the UI been localized at all?