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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by totemandtoken on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:19PM (#33791909)
You know, if you move around the 'just' in this title, it changes the meaning of the title to almost every opinion I've seen about Mastodon and Twitter
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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by wlesieutre on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:27PM (#33792022) 

  Just Mastodon Isn’t a Replacement for Twitter
  Mastodon Just Isn’t a Replacement for Twitter
  Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter
  Mastodon Isn’t a Just Replacement for Twitter
  Mastodon Isn’t a Replacement Just for Twitter
  Mastodon Isn’t a Replacement for Just Twitter
  Mastodon Isn’t a Replacement for Twitter Just
Yep, I’ve seen most of those blogposts
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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by layer8 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:29PM (#33792834)
What would the last one mean?
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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by whacked_new on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:39PM (#33792968)
twitterjust... might mean the part where you need to split your thoughts into spoon sized tweets...

"how's the article coming along?"

"hold on, I'm twitterjusting it"

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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by wlesieutre on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:32PM (#33792876)
It’s why I said “most”
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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by yarg on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:45PM (#33793774)
It's progressing, almost there, not yet ready.
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Re:Mastodon Isn’t Just a Replacement for Twitter by theprincess on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:45AM (#33801408)
Ending a sentence with "just" is short for "just fck my sht up". https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/brendan-frasers-alimony-just-...

It's meant to convey a sense of defeat. So in this case the sentence would read as implying that the author wanted Mastodon to replace Twitter but that it's not able and that fact is causing her emotional pain.

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