The majority of those are nothing burgers. They shut down their dedicated password app when they integrated it’s features into the browser, they shut down their encrypted file sharing tool when they realized it was being used for very nefarious uses, they shut down Positron and it’s affiliated projects because nobody started using it over Electron… and a lot of the rest are extremely niche (like viewing websites in 3d, cool but not all that useful).
Was it even a goal? Mastodon can be used for internal communication, e.g. social.kernel.org is only for linux developers, and I know a local university where they have a defederated mastodon instance where every student automatically got registered.
If they just needed it for posting news maybe simply having a profile on one of the big instances would be enough. I see they had only 270 users.
“It’s” follows the rule for contractions with words ending in “s” (is, has) as well as the apostrophe-s rule for possessive forms. As you have demonstrated, the distinction is obvious in context; there is no significant opportunity for confusion.
Keeping the old form does nothing for society other than to inflate the egos of authoritarian English teachers, provide an opportunity for pedantry, confuse spell checkers, and introduce an unneeded exception to the possessive form. Nothing of value is lost by eliminating the old word.
So, “It’s” is a homonym: two words spelled and pronounced the same, but carrying different meanings.
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The majority of those are nothing burgers. They shut down their dedicated password app when they integrated it’s features into the browser, they shut down their encrypted file sharing tool when they realized it was being used for very nefarious uses, they shut down Positron and it’s affiliated projects because nobody started using it over Electron… and a lot of the rest are extremely niche (like viewing websites in 3d, cool but not all that useful).
tja@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The same now with mozilla.social. nobody is using it
infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Was it even a goal? Mastodon can be used for internal communication, e.g. social.kernel.org is only for linux developers, and I know a local university where they have a defederated mastodon instance where every student automatically got registered.
If they just needed it for posting news maybe simply having a profile on one of the big instances would be enough. I see they had only 270 users.
DisappointedVulcan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
“Its” has been deprecated.
“It’s” follows the rule for contractions with words ending in “s” (is, has) as well as the apostrophe-s rule for possessive forms. As you have demonstrated, the distinction is obvious in context; there is no significant opportunity for confusion.
Keeping the old form does nothing for society other than to inflate the egos of authoritarian English teachers, provide an opportunity for pedantry, confuse spell checkers, and introduce an unneeded exception to the possessive form. Nothing of value is lost by eliminating the old word.
So, “It’s” is a homonym: two words spelled and pronounced the same, but carrying different meanings.