Notices by sukima :verified: (sukima@twit.social)

@carlrj @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird I was very much _not_ suggesting that. I was not suggesting any solution. I was merely contrasting that we got here and that technology has failed in something so basic as to need such awkward solutions anyway.

@carlrj @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird Still kinda thinking inside the box. Why do we need a solution? It is ok to point out the awkward solutions we have to a problem that if history played out differently we would not have. Considering that we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams how did we get to a point where markdown is the solution to a typography problem? Maybe things could be different.

@carlrj @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird 1) You just emphasized just fine without Markdown 2) It has been 50 years, why are we as a technology community still //waiting// on a solution better than Markdown? —This is a bit of a devil’s advocacy but I still think we can express ourselves just fine with plain text without needing fancy things like RichText. It feels weird to me.

@MetalSamurai @AlisonW @carlrj @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird I started with Usenet in the 90's and I remember people using slashes and other forms of markup in ASCII for all kinds of emphasis. I even remember lots of <g> used for grin/joke. And it is amazing how this thread devolved into semantics instead of discussing the inability for technology to be expressive by design in the first place.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird I find it curious how our computers all support UTF-8 yet the input methods are so shot that we need complex mark up language to enter in more typography then the 7-bit ASCII allows. I think the tech skipped a step somewhere.