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there's a big misconception by a lot of developers / technologists that if only they make the "right" proposal, with the right "pitch" that it will be magically adopted. that methodology is nearly always false — has a horrible track record.
[tantek] at 2025-12-17 22:52
@-mentions also had tons of prior plain text usage, blog comments, Flickr photo comments, PHPBB forums etc. many people simultaneously used @-username without anyone top-down declaring it to be a "thing". there was already widespread human linguistic usage in the wild before @-mentions were "formalized".
[tantek] at 2025-12-17 22:51
something else if it follows a certain profile.
trwnh at 2025-12-17 22:41
most formats have a sort of separation between header and body, metadata and content. twitterlikes don't let you make arbitrary claims, and you can only control the plain text content. so really it's just one more matroska doll you have to unwrap -- you get an http message, unwrap it for the body content which is usually html, then unwrap the html to get the real content (say a .h-entry .p-content), but you can unwrap that plain text to get
trwnh at 2025-12-17 22:41
re: "visual noise" i would say that people are doing the best they can using communication formats that are too limited. i'm doing so in this very irc message by saying "re:" to indicate that i am replying or responding to a specific thing.
trwnh at 2025-12-17 22:38
i would make the same claim more generally for any microsyntax. i know chris messina is quite proud of being known as "the inventor of the hashtag" (and in my experience gets a little prickly when people suggest things about hashtags), but the same problem exists for hashtags as well.
trwnh at 2025-12-17 22:35
gives Loqi a PHP upgrade
aaronpk at 2025-12-17 22:33
ah bummer, yeah they have been a bit aggressive in 8
aaronpk at 2025-12-17 22:30
...is there a problem with using them? it seems relatively harmless as a convention, although maybe not something you can dependably parse
trwnh at 2025-12-17 22:30
created /User:Noahberkson.com (+1328) "Created page with "= Noah Berkson = Hi, I’m Noah Berkson — and my home base on the web is '''[https://noahberkson.com/ noahberkson.com]'''. I use my site as a place to share notes, stories, and lessons I’m collecting — mostly around people, connection, and building a life (and work) that feels meaningful. == What I’m up to == I’m an entrepreneur and investor, and lately I’ve been especially interested in the “human skills” that matter more (not less) as technology chan...""
Loqi at 2025-12-17 22:14

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