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Personally I find interesting the general idea that adding constraints to a system leads to creative outlets, forcing the participants to break entablished thin
by gbaygon 10y ago
Personally I find interesting the general idea that adding constraints to a system leads to creative outlets, forcing the participants to break entablished thinking patterns. The fun stuff here is not the content, but the alternative paths the writer has to take to convey the message.
- confounded 10y agoIndeed, the 140 character constraint was one of the things that made Twitter novel.
- feld 10y agoNo that's what makes it suck. The limitation was for SMS compatibility, but the reality is that it makes it impossible to have meaningful discourse.
- lolsal 10y agoSo don't have meaningful discourse over SMS/twitter. Use email/phone/forums/...
- feld 10y agoToo much email. Too many people I know don't want to share their phone numbers. Forums are generally terrible. Try using Mastodon and you'll find it's twitter with meaningful conversations. 500 characters is a game changer.
- porpoisemonkey 10y agoWouldn't the asy workaround b to writ what you wantd to writ but drop th "3"? Even without the e's you can probably infer meaning with a high probability of success.
- odisbey 10y agoR3TURN
- scadge 10y agoReplacing 'e' with similar symbols like '3' is also not allowed. That's the point :)
- Sophira 10y agoIt's not actually said that "3" should swap with it - it's a substitution for that symbol. It's a proposal to post normally but to omit any symbols that don't fit by just not typing anything.