Oldschool fediverse phrases, from about 10y ago:

- TZAG: Time Zone Appropriate Greeting (preferred over "good morning")
- TZAF: Time Zone Appropriate Farewell
- #contextpatrol : when someone posted a response which wasn't linked to the original conversation, someone might link the conversation with #contextpatrol (the old StatusNet (ie, GNU Social) interface made not doing this accidentally easily)
- #vaguejokes : an obscure joke that was not really worth or more fun unexplained

Something I also miss: threaded conversations were the norm. Yes, in microblogging! Some of the most intense and interesting conversations about free software philosophy and licensing happened in threads that shot way off to the edge of the page

@cwebber
i subscribe to the zen of python:

Flat Is Better Then Nested

@nightpool flat is better than nested for shallow things, but you won't survive traversing deep things as well in flatland

consider how this affects the quality of The Discourse!

@cwebber @nightpool so... basically reddit, then?

@trwnh @cwebber yeah i look at reddit and HN and I kind of marvel on the claim that threaded vs flat models affect discussion as much as people claim they do

@nightpool @trwnh The problem with hacker news and reddit isn't the threaded interface (which *does* help a lot), it's smarmy techbro culture. And Reddit wasn't always as bad as it is today: 10y ago it was a lot more calm STEM conversations. Had a lot of the inherent privelege problems of that domain, but I'd consider it considerably less toxic today. (And many subreddits are not as bad, but anything on the homepage is a disaster... that wasn't always true.) Not sure how to scale good culture

@cwebber @trwnh i do appreciate the way you didn't thread these replies

@nightpool @trwnh Well Mastodon's web interface doesn't expose the threads so I'm limited to the UX of the application I'm using ;)