There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

  • Magiilaro
    -4•2 months ago

    Entire countries, like China, Japan, Korea, etc., use YYYY-MM-DD as their date standard already.

    And every person in those countries uses YYYY-MM-DD always in their day to day communication? I really doubt that. I am sure even in those countries most people will still use short forms in different formats.

    • @suigenerix
      2•2 months ago

      Yes, and their shorthand versions, like writing 9/4, have the same problem of being ambiguous.

      You keep missing the point and moving the goal posts, so I’ll just politely exit here and wish you well. Peace.

      • Magiilaro
        0•2 months ago

        I never moved the goalposts, all I always said was that a forced and clunky date format like YYYY-MM-DD will never find broad use or acceptance in the major population of the world. It is not made for easy day to day use.

        If it sounded like I moved goalposts, that maybe due to english as a second language. Sorry for that.

        But yes, I think we both have made our positions and statements clear, and there is not really a common ground for us. Not because one of us would be right or wrong but because we are not talking about the topic on the same level of abstraction. I talk about it from a social, very down to the ground perspective and you are at least 2 levels of abstraction above that. Nothing wrong with that but we just don’t see the same picture.

        And yes using YYYY-MM-DD would be great, I don’t say anything against that on a general level, I just don’t ever see any chance for it used commonly.

        So thank you for the great discussion and have a nice day.