Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Every Author as First Author

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

arXiv.org

@blinry
I recall seeing a peasants' complaint being signed in a circle so the powers-that-were could not make an example of the top signer.

Different background, same goal, same result. A beautiful example of design convergence.

@notsoloud @blinry
Inner Mongolia, fairly recently (past 5 or 10 years?): they revived an older tradition from the steppe/nomad culture IIRC, to complain to higherups about the treatment of Mongolian language/culture/education. Very interesting.

That’s the case I am aware of, but of course likely other cultures did/do it too!