• @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      >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.

          • squiblet
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            211 months ago

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

              • squiblet
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                111 months ago

                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.

                • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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                  111 months ago

                  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

                  • squiblet
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                    211 months ago

                    Ah, right! The post is, amazingly, from today. Maybe even on 4chan posted by OP.

        • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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          111 months ago

          It’s not a comment ID number, it’s saying there’s basically “a gazillion instances”. It’s making a joke about Lemmy but just in greentext.