The 144 characters limit. IIRC Twitter had the same limit because at the beginning you could post on your profile using SMS.
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I remember when phones where an arm and a leg in price purely because of T9. Having a predictive dictionary in your pocket needed a lot of bread.
“Is for better cooperation and team cohesion” says the boss via videocall, the grainy image reflecting the limited signal reach of his third house build in the Alps slightly south of Geneva.
My cubicle, 9 hours per day, is smaller than his shoe cabinet, and each pair of shoes is presumably more than my yearly salary.
“Then why you are so afraid as to be one continent over?” asks one of the office workers, his eyes pissed. The Boss silences promptly the microphone before returning to speak as almost nothing happened: “I hope you have a great day”.
We say nothing. He knows. 20 pairs of eyes look at him through the webcam. A person in front shows both middle fingers, promptly reflected in the smaller viewport of the camera.
Technology divergence is inevitable after corporations saw that convergence into an “all in one device” made their work much simpler.
No surprise feature phones, MP3 players and dedicated-use devices are making a comeback. My wish is for full pocket computers to return.
The Fediverse principle is not to be the next big thing. Just wants to be a functional series of communities.
That’s it. Decentralization is not only important, but critical to avoid a lot of shortfalls now common in bigger corporate socials.
Same thing happened to me for a remote call center job. They ended up discovering they mistyped the invitation link by not copy pasting the last character. They told me I was unprofessional via email until then. When they rescheduled, I simply told them their unprofessional approach pushed me to search another opportunity.
Interesting. I always believed the SMS is 144 characters. Incredible we had a social where ideas where sent 4~8 lines at a time (depending on the font size)