@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social
Post #1995974
2022-11-08 13:13 UTC
Replies (28)
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@unfnknblvbl@aus.social 2022-11-08 13:19
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen the Failwhale in ages, and that Mastodon needs something similarly whimsical instead of these 500-errors
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@bkastl@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 13:20
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Not to forget the weird times a little bit later when someone invented Retweets RT @ which was weird because you further reduced the remaining chars.
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@dswersky@hachyderm.io 2022-11-08 13:27
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social T-minus six months until #WhyDidntWeDoThisSooner 😁
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@hllizi@hespere.de 2022-11-08 14:05
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I joined in 2009. Yes, it was very weird.
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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2022-11-08 23:22
@taziden@mstdn.fr @bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Eventually someone introduced the use of the Recycling logo Unicode symbol instead of RT, i.e. ♻
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@deester@chaos.social 2022-11-08 14:12
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Good times...
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@tauli@chaos.social 2022-11-08 14:14
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I tend to think of twitter as this one weird mastodon instance, that for no good reason has blocked all the other instances and has one of the shittiest moderation teams. Also there's ads and this one emoji that you can add to your name for $8/month for some reason. Weird is a matter of perspective.
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@thomasknoll@interconnected.systems 2022-11-08 14:16
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social 50500? Or 40400 ? I can’t remember anymore.
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@alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place 2022-11-08 14:20
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social also we would retweet by writing "RT [append tweet here']"
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@jonasnuts@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 14:20
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social And #FollowFriday and #ThrowbackThursday :-) Here at mastodon it smells a lot like those days (joined in 2008 as well). We were shaping the service. And then, the algorithm took place. Maybe we can help shape Mastodon, and expect no algorithm, this time :-) The return of the utopia? :-)
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@mlliarm@mathstodon.xyz 2022-11-08 14:22
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I don't find popularity necessarily a good thing ...
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@jmcs@social.tchncs.de 2022-11-08 14:24
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Toots via SMS would be a killer feature for instances targeting places with bad mobile internet.
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@lclapp@tty0.social 2022-11-08 14:28
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Had to Google "failwhale". For the lazy: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale
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@ladyteruki@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 14:31
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social : I need to RT this on Twitter ! :P
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@rick@mas.ggr.me 2022-11-08 14:34
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social and for years new people would sign on and have no idea what to do, what the point was, or how to find people. IMO it was way more confusing to people than the server thing is now. At least now people get what microblogging is and how it basically works.
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@hernanca@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 14:36
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social you had to use URL shorteners, and external sites to post images.
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@chm@swiss.social 2022-11-08 14:39
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I joined Twitter in 2006. There was even a global timeline!
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@aaronesilvers@jawns.club 2022-11-08 14:39
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I absolutely forgot about the d to dm someone…
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@stormkeepergu@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 14:41
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Oh yeah... The failwhale... I almost forgot about that!
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@Liveotherwise@mastodon.art 2022-11-08 14:49
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social tweets via text were a thing. We used to use it on camping holidays. Meant you could save money, send one text and all your friends for it. Because you got charged by the text back then.
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@balpha@social.balpha.de 2022-11-08 15:00
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Manual "RT"s! Images needed to be hosted externally! Fun times 😁
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@EnrProc@mastodon.bida.im 2022-11-08 15:02
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social although I've never been a heavy Twitter user I remember those days, but the main difference is that back in the day we weren't spoiled by 10+ years of social media algorithms and carefully designed UIs. A lot of people learned to use the internet inside those ecosystems and breaking free won't be easy (or even desirable) for many of them..
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@tomas@c.im 2022-11-08 15:06
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social been on Twitter since 2009. Mastodon isn't bad at all.
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@MsHurricane@c.im 2022-11-08 15:08
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social so true.
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@jomo@mstdn.io 2022-11-08 15:18
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social @pfhllnts@mstdn.io remember twitpic?
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@Saxxon@yiff.life 2022-11-08 15:19
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Tweets via SMS were absolutely a thing, and that's how I used it on the go! I won't forget the SMS number, 40404. This was before I had any "smart" mobile devices.
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@bellesapepper_37@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 15:23
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social good ol' days of Twitter. When cell data plans severely limited who could participate. When Twitter SMS rolled out and the ability to quote SMS tweets. I thought that was the best access of it's time. 2k + per day for me. LoL texting plan was better. Then it changed to app notifications, bloated app ware. smh Good thing internet hit some parts of this Rez. Or I wouldn't be here.
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@H2O@climatejustice.social 2022-11-08 15:23
@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social thanks for that bit of history! I waa remembering the advent of hashtags last night but didn’t know who to credit.