@matigo In the 90s we called that dogfooding. It's pretty common these days, unless you work somewhere that is stuck in the last century. :P
// @kdfrawg
@matigo It's internally consistent, at least, but there's a difference between content I generate as part of my presence (blog posts, podcasts) and content I generate as part of a conversation. Changing social content can have a material effect on the conversation whereas change a blog post or podcast can have less impact.
Even if you allow people to edit their social posts, I think it's important to flag when it has been modified. Maybe not show it if the edit occurred within X minutes or something. Facebook does this.
@kdfrawg There was a time I could see myself programming for a living. Then I took a class in college on writing programs for X Windows. The final project for that class broke me. By then, I discovered that maybe being a sysadmin would be a better job for me.
@kdfrawg I didn't write from scratch but I did modify a couple of existing ones (one in AppleSoft Basic, the other in HyperCard).
@kdfrawg in 1979 I was 6. I had been exposed to a personal computer by that point (an Apple ][) but had no idea you could use one to communicate over vast distances…
Wow, have I really been communicating with people over computers and phone lines for 30 years now?
@indigo This made it a whole lot easier to find new people to follow that talk about things you're interested in.
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Meanwhile I am thinking about the threaded messaging system I coded myself in Apple Basic that was based on BBSes I used back in the mid 1980s. Every message could be the "root" of a new conversation. Didn't have a very good way to render the conversation tree…