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This post needs a bunch more context; right now it's only immediately accessible to people who don't need the announcement [1].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/curtains-for-zoosha

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It gives "Bleeb is now Scrumple! Snap me on Simpr! We're excited to share that Gringl will merge with Jigglify!"

Headline reminds me of Poob.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3056633-poob-has-it-for-you

The fact that I know what both Gleam and Tangled are in this context means I spend too much time on HN and not enough time doing useful things.

Makes me nostalgic for the old days (2000s and early 2010s) when everything was WordWord. Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, Dropbox, etc. Now it's just normal words without vowels. The Grindrification of naming.

There was no shortage of names like that. A lot of them rebranded later. Remember twttr?

Gleam is a popular language amongst people who like Erlang or Elixir. They are both built for the BEAM virtual machine.

Tangled is a decentralized GitHub alternative built on ATProto (the same protocol as Bluesky)

Did they move away from github?

The irony of that linked page dragging a reposted mid tweet into multiple scrollable pages of “content” and in doing so reading exactly like a celeb news article

I think it would only be irony if it was guilty of the same issue it's complaining about in celeb news: not sufficiently explaining the context. If anything, it's too exhaustive.

Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.

I absolutely could, by removing everything past the first 3-5 sentences in the article. But that probably wouldn’t satisfy the site owner’s desired metrics and SEO targeting.

Actually that means they did a great job of writing a BLUF article. If you only care about the most basic details, you're free to click away after reading the first paragraph. They didn't even mess with my history, a very low bar many similar websites fail to clear. You only need to scroll down if you want more background and context.

I mean, you could. I've read your blog and it's quite well-written, not only just better-than-know-your-meme. Thank you btw, some really nice reads there.

So is it true that JESTERMAXXING at the club is the new meta?

I have zero idea what your link has to do with the original post, which seems to just be the Gleam language on some new version control host?

Exactly, even if one doesn't know about either of these things (gleam & tangled), all it would take is one or two searches or even better they just visit the homepage. I suppose people have become so used to reading llm generated bluff that simple things don't appeal/make sense to them anymore.

At some point, narcissistic injuries in response to "rtfm" or "stfw" got so prominent that just telling people asking others to spend their time explaining things that were 5 second google searches away to google it became a faux pas

> seems to just be the Gleam language

Ok so that "gleam" is a language (presumably programming language) is some of the missing context.

> on some new version control host

Is that what Tangled is? I guess I'll take your word for it.

I just happen to know of Gleam, the programming language.

> > on some new version control host

> Is that what Tangled is?

I don't really know. It's just a guess from the looks of it. I also don't know why this is important that Gleam is on Tangled now. Shrug. What really confused me is the commenter's link, both the link itself and its relevance.

Yeah it should definitely start with a bit of explanation, perhaps, it should start with what this site (hn, aka, hackernews) is even about!

This isn't true. I knew what gleam was (though do not use it) and what tangled was already (and I do use it), and this announcement is new information to me.

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