(in the earlier days of mastodon I pissed off everyone when they introduced the DM feature by immediately filling the 500 character limit with an @ mention of all of my mutuals, to... DM Everyone, causing extreme lag and notification nightmare)

(in the earlier days of mastodon I pissed off everyone when they introduced the DM feature by immediately filling the 500 character limit with an @ mention of all of my mutuals, to... DM Everyone, causing extreme lag and notification nightmare)
was just talking last night about how I vaguely remember someone doing something similar on twitter in the early years, where they'd @'ed tons of people at once and left only enough room for one character at the end. no-one could reply to the chain without an error because the sender's name was shorter than theirs. sadly I can't figure out how to even bring that up in a search