#stopdoingabbreviations — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Matrix/Element-adjacent
Not the point, but I find it utterly hilarious that a company arguing for the merits of "enterprise" features has to use ridiculous ad-hoc contractions and incomprehensible abbreviations in order to fit into an artificially low character limit.
Or maybe it is the point. Commercial social media (or "consumer" software) uses low character limits to make you waste more time and view more ads reading a thread than you would need to read an equal-length post. Mastodon uses an artificially low character limit because it's trying to imitate a particular commercial social network, despite not having the same incentives to make you waste more time.
Element is trying to use "consumer" software with an artificially low character limit to make an announcement that shouldn't have such a low character limit, with the result that they have to use non-Googleable abbreviations like "s/w".
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116414177096714462
#AbolishCharacterLimits #StopDoingCharacterLimits #StopDoingAbbreviations -
CW: Matrix/Element-adjacent
Not the point, but I find it utterly hilarious that a company arguing for the merits of "enterprise" features has to use ridiculous ad-hoc contractions and incomprehensible abbreviations in order to fit into an artificially low character limit.
Or maybe it is the point. Commercial social media (or "consumer" software) uses low character limits to make you waste more time and view more ads reading a thread than you would need to read an equal-length post. Mastodon uses an artificially low character limit because it's trying to imitate a particular commercial social network, despite not having the same incentives to make you waste more time.
Element is trying to use "consumer" software with an artificially low character limit to make an announcement that shouldn't have such a low character limit, with the result that they have to use non-Googleable abbreviations like "s/w".
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116414177096714462
#AbolishCharacterLimits #StopDoingCharacterLimits #StopDoingAbbreviations -
CW: Matrix/Element-adjacent
Not the point, but I find it utterly hilarious that a company arguing for the merits of "enterprise" features has to use ridiculous ad-hoc contractions and incomprehensible abbreviations in order to fit into an artificially low character limit.
Or maybe it is the point. Commercial social media (or "consumer" software) uses low character limits to make you waste more time and view more ads reading a thread than you would need to read an equal-length post. Mastodon uses an artificially low character limit because it's trying to imitate a particular commercial social network, despite not having the same incentives to make you waste more time.
Element is trying to use "consumer" software with an artificially low character limit to make an announcement that shouldn't have such a low character limit, with the result that they have to use non-Googleable abbreviations like "s/w".
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116414177096714462
#AbolishCharacterLimits #StopDoingCharacterLimits #StopDoingAbbreviations -
CW: Matrix/Element-adjacent
Not the point, but I find it utterly hilarious that a company arguing for the merits of "enterprise" features has to use ridiculous ad-hoc contractions and incomprehensible abbreviations in order to fit into an artificially low character limit.
Or maybe it is the point. Commercial social media (or "consumer" software) uses low character limits to make you waste more time and view more ads reading a thread than you would need to read an equal-length post. Mastodon uses an artificially low character limit because it's trying to imitate a particular commercial social network, despite not having the same incentives to make you waste more time.
Element is trying to use "consumer" software with an artificially low character limit to make an announcement that shouldn't have such a low character limit, with the result that they have to use non-Googleable abbreviations like "s/w".
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116414177096714462
#AbolishCharacterLimits #StopDoingCharacterLimits #StopDoingAbbreviations -
CW: Matrix/Element-adjacent
Not the point, but I find it utterly hilarious that a company arguing for the merits of "enterprise" features has to use ridiculous ad-hoc contractions and incomprehensible abbreviations in order to fit into an artificially low character limit.
Or maybe it is the point. Commercial social media (or "consumer" software) uses low character limits to make you waste more time and view more ads reading a thread than you would need to read an equal-length post. Mastodon uses an artificially low character limit because it's trying to imitate a particular commercial social network, despite not having the same incentives to make you waste more time.
Element is trying to use "consumer" software with an artificially low character limit to make an announcement that shouldn't have such a low character limit, with the result that they have to use non-Googleable abbreviations like "s/w".
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116414177096714462
#AbolishCharacterLimits #StopDoingCharacterLimits #StopDoingAbbreviations -
STOP DOING ABBREVIATIONS!
Millions of years of human communication yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to be unclear just for fucks? We had a tool for that, it was called making vague references that your audience won't understand!
Look at some of the abbreviations they expect us to take seriously! These are REAL abbreviations made by REAL abbreviators!
* OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM : This is an abbreviation used by the main villain of @[email protected] 's Supernormal Step. It stands for "The Office of Acquisitions in Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners."
* GL : Are we talking about the general linear group, the general linear Lie algebra, girl love, or a graphics library?
* i18n : Which is not in any way i18n-able.
* V.F.D.
"Hi, I want to express very tepid support for trans rights but I can't be bothered to type more than four letters, so TWAW!"
THPUFAF
#OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM #VFD #SuperNormalStep #StopDoingMemes #StopDoingAbbreviations -
STOP DOING ABBREVIATIONS!
Millions of years of human communication yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to be unclear just for fucks? We had a tool for that, it was called making vague references that your audience won't understand!
Look at some of the abbreviations they expect us to take seriously! These are REAL abbreviations made by REAL abbreviators!
* OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM : This is an abbreviation used by the main villain of @[email protected] 's Supernormal Step. It stands for "The Office of Acquisitions in Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners."
* GL : Are we talking about the general linear group, the general linear Lie algebra, girl love, or a graphics library?
* i18n : Which is not in any way i18n-able.
* V.F.D.
"Hi, I want to express very tepid support for trans rights but I can't be bothered to type more than four letters, so TWAW!"
THPUFAF
#OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM #VFD #SuperNormalStep #StopDoingMemes #StopDoingAbbreviations -
STOP DOING ABBREVIATIONS!
Millions of years of human communication yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to be unclear just for fucks? We had a tool for that, it was called making vague references that your audience won't understand!
Look at some of the abbreviations they expect us to take seriously! These are REAL abbreviations made by REAL abbreviators!
* OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM : This is an abbreviation used by the main villain of @[email protected] 's Supernormal Step. It stands for "The Office of Acquisitions in Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners."
* GL : Are we talking about the general linear group, the general linear Lie algebra, girl love, or a graphics library?
* i18n : Which is not in any way i18n-able.
* V.F.D.
"Hi, I want to express very tepid support for trans rights but I can't be bothered to type more than four letters, so TWAW!"
THPUFAF
#OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM #VFD #SuperNormalStep #StopDoingMemes #StopDoingAbbreviations -
STOP DOING ABBREVIATIONS!
Millions of years of human communication yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to be unclear just for fucks? We had a tool for that, it was called making vague references that your audience won't understand!
Look at some of the abbreviations they expect us to take seriously! These are REAL abbreviations made by REAL abbreviators!
* OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM : This is an abbreviation used by the main villain of @[email protected] 's Supernormal Step. It stands for "The Office of Acquisitions in Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners."
* GL : Are we talking about the general linear group, the general linear Lie algebra, girl love, or a graphics library?
* i18n : Which is not in any way i18n-able.
* V.F.D.
"Hi, I want to express very tepid support for trans rights but I can't be bothered to type more than four letters, so TWAW!"
THPUFAF
#OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM #VFD #SuperNormalStep #StopDoingMemes #StopDoingAbbreviations -
STOP DOING ABBREVIATIONS!
Millions of years of human communication yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to be unclear just for fucks? We had a tool for that, it was called making vague references that your audience won't understand!
Look at some of the abbreviations they expect us to take seriously! These are REAL abbreviations made by REAL abbreviators!
* OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM : This is an abbreviation used by the main villain of @[email protected] 's Supernormal Step. It stands for "The Office of Acquisitions in Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners."
* GL : Are we talking about the general linear group, the general linear Lie algebra, girl love, or a graphics library?
* i18n : Which is not in any way i18n-able.
* V.F.D.
"Hi, I want to express very tepid support for trans rights but I can't be bothered to type more than four letters, so TWAW!"
THPUFAF
#OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM #VFD #SuperNormalStep #StopDoingMemes #StopDoingAbbreviations