Messaging_irl

By ShepGoesBlep

97 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

lena@gregtech.eu · 12 pts · 129d (3 replies)

The point of online chats is that they're asynchronous. You don't need to wait for someone to type up their message because you can receive and transmit at the same time.

vithigar@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 129d (1 reply)

Yes, but in an active conversation it's possible, even sometimes likely, that a message the other person is typing will add context that has relevance for what you were about to say.

lena@gregtech.eu · 4 pts · 129d

Yeah that's true

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 129d

People like to have full context when trying to formulate a response.

anise@quokk.au · 5 pts · 129d

this is why we C-a C-x instead of C-a backspace

bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 128d

CSMA/CD moment