@darius E

@darius
really hoping that and oulipo.social are mutually blocked.

@darius

E🐬: https://dolphin-wordle.glitch.me/

@darius
é!

È ė ë ê!

@darius People haven't started encoding messages in binary using e and E yet?

@darius arch enemies of @oulipo.social! Or perhaps where all of the unused 'e's end up?

@darius did you specifically choose E as the only valid letter to make sure that all the transfems flock to your instance, or is it a coincidence that it is E out of all letters? xD

@darius e

There are so many ways to encode arbitrary data when all characters you have are e, E, and space. But then maybe I'm just too boring.

@darius eeee!

@darius that seems like an awesome instance

@darius

This is delightful!

@darius@friend.camp
eEEEEeeE eEEeeEeE eEEEeeEE eeEeeeee eEEEeEEe eEEeeEeE eEEEeeEe eEEEEeeE eeEeeeee eEEeeEEE eEEeEEEE eEEeEEEE eEEeeEee

@darius now how long does a password with “e” only need to be to have the same amount of entropy as “secure” ones

@darius Oh, that is beautiful! :)

@darius one question
Why

@darius That is amazing.

@darius why isn't the domain eeeeeeeeee.ee?

@darius dafuq

@darius oh I missed dolphin.town! Thought it was defunct! This is wonderful.

@darius this is the internet we were promised

@darius Let me guess: there is an Ook! programming language that these folks prefer! Love it already.

@darius okay I NEED to join this

@darius

I assume it's not the right server for Georges Perec

@darius OH! My EEEEEE!!!

@darius dolphins be communicating in Morse code like

@darius e

@darius , I just joined!

@darius Are these all the "e"s left behind from George Perec's novel "La Disparition"?

@darius Sounds like a cool place for Brainfuck code.

@darius Inflamatory material. Where are your mods?

@darius okay but this would be the funniest esoteric programming language, particularly if numbers were excluded so one had to represent an int as a string of eeeeee s corresponding to the number - LISP vibes

Oh right: some of you might be interested in this talk I did 5 years ago called "Infrastructure As Shitpost" where I talk about Dolphin Town and the creative possibilities of the fediverse

https://vimeo.com/225566309

@darius Since you can upper and lowercase Es and whitespace, you can send messages in Morse code.

What about accents? Can I toss off some heavy metal ëës?

@darius tried to sign up for an alt on dolphin town but someone is squatting my username 😔

@darius eeee EEEeeee!

@darius

简中赛博难民潮碰上了twitter难民潮，天涯共此时了

@darius@friend.camp eeeeeee

@darius how did I manage to not learn until TODAY that you are culpable for dolphin.town

@darius

@darius It makes me so happy to know that dolphin.town exists.

@darius some of the high weirdness that exists on Mastodon reminds of the early days of the Internet and I am totally down with it. This is hilarious!

@darius
Did someone force you to read "Gadsby," and this is your revenge?

@darius E

@darius
wow

@darius this is awesome🤣🤣🤣

@darius Now I just need a tool to crosspost translated forms of my posts here.

Reminds me of NaNoWriMo obfuscation, from back when you had to paste your full text into the site. People worried about NoNoWriMo stealing their novels would replace every character with the letter "n" so you'd still get an accurate wordcount, but without any content. I added that as an export option when I coded a novel editor last year.

@darius
Does that mean, you can post Brainfuck code there execute it to get more letters?

@darius I hope in can handle the load. EeEeEe_EeeeEeeeEeee_EeEeEe incoming :)

(beautiful Idea!)

@darius so cuteeee

@darius This speaks to me personally.

@darius I suppose that running an instance only with the E letter, you know or someone already told you about this french book : "La Disparition".

A lipogrammatic french classic #book by Georges Perec from 1969.

The whole book was written without the E letter (which is a prowess in french language where it's a prominent letter).

@darius eeeeeee! That's eeeexciting! 🐳

@darius Elle Elegerchen heben ene Kleetschee

@darius I guess this makes you the anti Georges Perec.

@darius Five minutes into rejoining the fediverse and I've already found something that I missed from the old Internet. Weird stuff like this makes the world a better place. Love it! 🤣

@darius eeeeEeeE

@darius that's amazing, made me laugh.

@darius 🤣

@darius ee eeeee?

@darius eeeeee eeee e! eeeeeeh! :blobcatgiggle:​

@darius

For some reason, my instance does not federate with it - is this instance suspended?

@darius You probably get this joke a lot but: Georges Perec must be spinning in his grave

@darius eeeeeee!

@darius So tempted to open an account @_e___e__e_e_ to toot all about La Disparition on oulipo.social and dolphin.town <3

@darius Eeeeeee!!!

@darius next time somebody asks me what’s mastodon i’m showing them this

@darius that must be the most hilarious thing I’ve read all week 😂😂 thanks for being silly #mastodon

@darius amazing! 🐬 Eeeee eee e!

@darius long live the mighty dolphins of the sea with their curious smiles and friendly shrieks!

@darius does Flipper have a validated celeb account?

@darius This is a goddamned delight. I love everything about it.

@darius sounds like fun lol