#stopdoingcharacterlimits — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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