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The fediverse in a nutshell (futurology.today)
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[–] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

They're not quoting. It's just how stuff is written there

E: Found the thread, yeah not quoting, just greentext.

4chan chat in question

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98011228

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    >be me

    >try to explain meme arrows aka greentext in Lemmy

    >tfw you've made yourself look like an idiot

    Jokes and stories are often written that way there. Greentext. Actual quote and that greentext form of writing just use the same > arrow thingy. You see it here too sometimes.

    I think there's something fun about writing it like that. Reminds me of IRC.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    I went and found the thread for us, it's just greentext, no quoting, it's the second message and just clowning on Lemmy

    4chan chat in question

    https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98011228

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That’s some dedication! Okay. I’ll accept I am incompetent.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I was starting to doubt myself so I had to check, haha.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I originally read it as just saying 'different instances' and not stating a number of different instances. But that's not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don't remember, isn't there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn't consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah the format is a bit different, with >> denoting the comment number

    picture of 4channel.org comment)

    Though it could've easily been a messed up formatting. I've done it plenty of times. Though their formatting is easier than here, where you need that extra empty line for comments to show up on different lines.

    I didn’t consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.

    I was searching archives and found nothing, assuming it was old enough (and I was lucky enough) that it was archived. Then just searched for the comment number + 4chan and found it. Turns it it is just 20 hours old or so. Only now I realize that the date is right there lol. And it being /g/, it's much much slower

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