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Ooof. That makes me feel better about that time I accidentally brought 'Test Post 1' into production by commenting on it.

It's me deciding. Recommendations for interesting people on Mastodon to follow are welcome (either in this post, or the sticky 'About this community' post).

Thank you.

I think there's more to it though, in that simple values aren't moved, they're always copied (with any & in front indicating whether it's the value to copy or the address)

To illustrate:

fn how_many(a: u32, fruit: String) {
    println!("there are {} {}", a, fruit);
}


fn main() {
    let a=4;
    let fruit = String::from("Apples");
    how_many(a, fruit);

    println!("the amount was {}", a);         // this works
    println!("the fruit was {}", fruit);      // this fails
}

The 'a' was copied, and the 'fruit' was moved.

Or perhaps:

Mmmm. It's the instance that people are on on that's doing (or not doing) much of the work there. If you comment on a post, the instance will send 1 copy to me (who's responsible for federating it out to other Lemmy instances) and 1 copy to Mastodon for the post's author.

If you reply to a Lemmy comment, it doesn't send it to Mastodon because it's not for the author (in much the same way that you don't get replies to replies in your inbox if you're the OP of a Lemmy post). For local posts, both Mastodon and Lemmy show the local comment tree, but neither can show every Fediverse interaction because they never hear about them.

Likewise, if you reply to a Mastodon comment, your instance will send it to the comment author, but not the post author, so won't appear anywhere under their post.

As for Mastodon comments on Lemmy ... it depends. I follow some accounts, so when I post them to Lemmy, top-level comments come through automatically (again, though, I never hear about replies to replies). Other content is just stuff I've seen and grabbed. I often post the existing replies, but not if they've turned Authorized Fetch on, and I don't typically go back and check for more later.

They can, yes. The lemmy instance that a particular user is on handles that. This community is mostly about getting the posts and comments into lemmy in the first place.

There was a TV show called Moonhaven where men were a bit more like this. It was cancelled after 1 season, of course.

He mentions in the video description that the other guy is his friend, so I guess it's just 2 people messing around.

By algorithms, I just meant Google or AI: mostly rubbish of course, but shit-hot at answering 'Best 90s films' type questions.

I suspect you get downvotes a lot 'cos no-one wants to do the drudge work that tech can actually handle.

You seem to like David Fincher a lot. It's a shame that 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is 2011, I suppose.

This kind of thing is something that algorithms are better at than people - the resources are there, so you may as well use them.

Anyway, a well-regarded but often forgotten (by me at least) recommendation: Dead Man's Shoes (2004). (don't Google it beforehand though). Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hChf0hmh0fM

Lol, no. I've decided that they should be exclusively referred to as Tails OS (they've yet to formally agree).

The name comes it being a Community that follows People (so flipping the usual relationship in a heads/tails kinda way, but also tail as a synonym for follow).

Not yet, no.