How many authors have their contributions in #curl product source code? How many have had their previous work completely removed. Over time.
The first #curl release with code present authored by 200 persons was done in 2015-04-22. In that release, we had already removed all traces of contributions from 20 authors.
In the latest release, 604 authors' code is still present. 171 authors' work have been replaced.
@bagder I guess the "removed all traces" part is on lines most recently changed by the author, shown by git blame. So refactoring work could remove a persons contribution while their work is still providing value to curl.
@kev it seems like a very short sighted feature from the search engines perspective. If no one has to go to the websites, then people will have no reason to create websites with the answers, and then the AI can’t get the answer.
The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@ploum@davidrevoy Can you explain which negative consequences you see from this? All the data they will get is public, so they could get it anyways. I don’t think that they can really manipulate the users of the fediverse through activity pub. Moderation may be worse, but there are laws enforcing some moderation, so it can’t be completely bad. If it really is, activity pub could possibly be extended to allow moderation of other instances instead of complete blocks.
(Fediverse survey post, asking people to click on a web link to a Mastodon post and say what their app does with it.)
UPDATE: Aaaarrgghhhhhhh! 😱 I had a number of people asking me for clarification of the poll, so I edited option wording, but this caused it to reset the responses to zero. I am so sorry! 🥴
The latest figures before I messed this up were this:
About 75% of people clicking on a link to a Mastodon post saw it displayed a normal post, 25% saw it displayed in a browser window.
Whenever you set the Region, whether with C-SPC (set-mark-command) or a mouse selection, or implicitly with textual
object mark commands (like M-h (mark-paragraph)), the Mark’s current location is pushed onto the Mark Ring. The Mark is
also set for you automatically at places where you’ve done “significant” things, like changing text, moving a long way
away in one big jump (there being many ways to do this), the spot where you issued a search command, and the like, and
these locations also go onto the Mark Ring.
Thus a breadcrumb trail of Marks is left for you to find your way back, Theseus-like, to where you’ve been, and provides
a quick way to get back to these previous locations. The way to jump back to the previous Mark location is to give C-SPC
(set-mark-command) an argument, so C-u C-SPC. It also rotates the Mark Ring, so that a repeated, uninterrupted sequence
of C-u C-SPC commands will take you back in time through your previous Mark locations. The Mark Ring is a circular
structure, so when you hit the end, you’ll circle round to the most recent Mark location again. You’ll notice the
analogies to the operation of the Kill Ring.
@devinprater Thank you! I didn’t know about C-u C-spc. I have occasionally been frustrated that I had overridden a previous mark, but not frustrated enough to research how to use them properly.
One of the nicest community features on medium and small servers is the Local timeline, which shows all public posts by people on that server.
You can see this on Mastodon's website interface by clicking "Local", or on the official Mastodon app by clicking the magnifying glass 🔍 and then "Community".
If you want to see the Local timeline of other servers, you can usually go to their website and click "Local". Also some apps support viewing them, such as Fedilab, Subway Tooter and Ice Cubes.
@feditips
It seems like a very nice feature of the fediverse to be able to switch between the federated content and the local instance content. Especially for users on more specialised instances about fx. art.
The new app, @radiant also supports the local timeline.