@drq one reason I can think of is newcomers being *scared* of said box, after being conditioned by numerous jokes (some of them pretty cruel) about the destructive commands.

And command naming doesn't help, making most commands look like arcane language of random letters mashed together (Pacman being probably the worst offenders among package managers in particular) and not even readable *aliases* available by default. It's ergonomic for day-to-day manual use to someone already familiar with it all, but approachability suffers as a result.

And don't get me started on VT-100 still holding on to dear life of ruining the consistency of textual inputs between itself and the rest of GUIs. Like, copying actually *interrupts* ongoing work? Right-click is *paste*? «Dafuq?»

@jeremy That's good. I would like to suggest a couple more must-have features, which are really lacking in the existing clients.

1. Tree-style comments.
2. Hiding read posts from the feed.Features that are usually implemented in more, say, grown-up blogs, on the other hand, Mastodon (not to mention the rest of the Fediverse) has long since outgrown the 500 character limit.

Whoever is the first to implement such a thing will undoubtedly gain everyone's respect ;-)

The terrorists hoped that these attacks would send the entire civilization into the death spiral.

And they were right.

Almost all of the surveilance/security theater/thought police/war on terror bullshit we're dealing with today everywhere in the world, can be traced back to that very morning in New York.

The whole "anti-terrorist" shebang scored way greater body count than the attacks themselves, all of them, combined. Not to mention trillions and trillions of every currency under the Sun, that could have easily lifted the entire humanity out of poverty, eaten by the military industrial complex instead.

It's like we're in a bad timeline. I was alive to see it happen, and the world has never truly recovered from it ever since. Instead, it just collapses ever deeper into self-perpetuating self-consumption. This sucks. I hate this so much.