Egregoros

wait does <3 turn my text blue

<3 or just at the start of a line

SCREAM WHY

@throatmuppet 4chan greentext imitation. you can disable it in the settings if you (justifiably) don't like it

@wizard >tfw you thought it just turned forward arrows green
what does turning the < sign blue even signify?

@throatmuppet wait, i might be misremembering? i thought gor sure i've seen some greentexts that invert the < in specific circumstances, but i can't find any examples of that after looking... maybe it was a thing from some other imageboards?

@wizard @throatmuppet seems they added "cyantexting" in this commit with no explanation :( can't find any mentions of cyantext elsewhere either..

https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma-fe/commit/cc00af7a3102034b05ebcd4aa1fd01c6f467184a

@ww @throatmuppet did some field research, it was 8chan that introduced pinktexting that started with a <. there are tons of reasons that its used on the site, which i won't go into here.

@ww @throatmuppet summoning @hj . could we get a history lesson maybe? ive almost entirely forgotten the writing of the sacred texts apparently.

what prompted the introduction of cyanposting in pleroma-fe?

@wizard @throatmuppet @ww i don't really know myself, the > prefix has been traditionally used in (plaintext) emails to signify quotation, which ended up in markup languages and messageboards. My guess is that since quotation formatting becoming a meme "greentext" someone thought it would be a fun idea to have differently-colored text with "<" as an addition to that.

Maybe @eal knows better.

@hj @throatmuppet @wizard @ww it's a post formatting character on some imageboards, like kc and ylilauta (that comes out as cyan text)