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Well I will fight this trend to the death. Thankfully I don't like to surround myself with philistines

• meowface 2y ago
  The war is already over. I 100% agree lowercase in longform essays is ridiculous, but I think for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comments, lowercase is absolutely going to be the default online in 20 years.
  • marssaxman 2y ago
    So "everything that matters will continue to be written normally, but throwaway chatter will be written casually, where the specific features connoting casualness are a matter of ever-changing fashion"? Thinking back on '90s-era IRC chats, I suppose it was ever thus.
  • bowsamic 2y ago
    > for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comment That’s already the only stuff worth reading and always has been. No loss then