bowsamic 2 days ago

Well I will fight this trend to the death. Thankfully I don't like to surround myself with philistines

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  • meowface 2 days ago

    The war is already over.

    I 100% agree lowercase in longform essays is ridiculous, but I think for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comments, lowercase is absolutely going to be the default online in 20 years.

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    • marssaxman a day ago

      So "everything that matters will continue to be written normally, but throwaway chatter will be written casually, where the specific features connoting casualness are a matter of ever-changing fashion"? Thinking back on '90s-era IRC chats, I suppose it was ever thus.

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    • bowsamic a day ago

      > for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comment

      That’s already the only stuff worth reading and always has been. No loss then

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