People here may remember the good old times of IRC and MUDs. There's one forgotten feature they had which somehow didn't make through to the web 2.0.
Emotes
Perhaps Nostr can revive it?
Do you remember doing on IRC:
/me burps loudly which would render:
Jesterhodl burps loudly.
Different formatting made it stand out from normal messages.
Similarly in MUds you could do more complex emotes
hug CARLA (npub1hu3…h8nh) would create a distinct (non-chat) message which would render
Jesterhodl hugs Carla
to the observers
So what do you think about simple IRC and more comolex MUD emotes? That would totally bring back the 90s vibe.
#nostalgia #emotes
jesterhodl / JesterHodl
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2023-02-21 09:07:56
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