@mcc Thank you for saying this.

People complain about various aspects of, say, the usability gap between Mastodon / The Fediverse and what Twitter used to be, and they raise a variety of good points, but on every one of those axes the gap between Discord/Slack and IRC absolutely dwarfs them.

I get that it's beloved of a vocal minority, but they are largely people whose lives have literally grown around IRC! Ivy asking sun-starved ground-cover to just climb a tree already.

@mcc Not when I'm actually using an emdash, but in casual conversation I'll approximate it with "-- ".

I don't have a reason for this other than that I'm copying a convention people I knew on LiveJournal used. I used to do " - " but eventually got self-conscious about it for reasons that again I don't think I can really explain. I guess you could say that space-after enforces a consistent interaction with word-wrap? I dunno.

I'm also inexplicably stubborn about preferring ASCII in casual text.

@0xabad1dea I dunno, I read it as them giving developers cheeky options to choose to convey, especially if they don't have many hobbies to select, that their lives are plenty full as-is.