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Forked from https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/I_WANT_TO_HELP these fork developers make it look on their website that they are the zshell developers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it's just people using it for what's not the intended purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, those are the ones producing all the interesting content on there. The rest is pretty much just a worse RSS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's also not the intended purpose of microblogging. It's sad :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Then what is the intended purpose?

It is pretty much a mix of bad chat, bad RSS and content too large for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you really asking me to explain the idea of microblogging?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I am asking what you consider the intended purpose.

I mean besides the three things I mentioned I have only ever seen the initial Twitter spin of "Look, I am pooping/eating/... now" which seems to have largely disappeared (and for good reason).