La Fée Verte @Absinthe@qoto.org
The green faerie
Joined Aug 2019
@Genie@spinster.xyz @alex @freemo @Surasanji Just as a clarification, "A federated instance in the fediverse" may not be what you think you were promised.
What you are describing is very possible. It just isn't what you have/are a part of.
If spinster de-federeates from other instances, and other instances de-federate away from spinster. Then you will have a closed space for only the people who are on spinster.
I hope spinster doesn't get silenced from us, but if they do it is not just about one petty person getting hurt feelings. But I am not looking for a fight on this so if you disagree that's okay too.
Anyway, be well, and I hope you find what you are looking for.
Silencing Spinster Instance for all of QOTO, CW for Length
@arteteco @freemo @alex @Surasanji @mk I would personally be against blocking a whole instance. Can't we just silence the impolite and abusive?
@Genie@spinster.xyz @alex @freemo @Surasanji That's called an echo chamber. It is kind of the opposite of federation in that you would never hear or see any opinion but your own. I assume there is a place for such things, I just don't personally see the value in it myself as I am for the free and open exchange of ideas. However, if you are looking to build something like that, all that is required is to de-federate all the instances that aren't 100% in agreement with whatever your instance(in general) stance happens to be. There are closed instances that just contain one business or family or whatever and can certainly create that "support group" environment. I don't believe that was the goal of Spinster, though I don't pretend to speak for them.
I would rather see a playground where both the boys and girls could play together and no one has to stay on the pink side or the blue side and play with gender appropriate toys.
@freemo Looks done.
@freemo A new broom sweeps clean :)
@freemo found the delete. So I started over. I redid the import, and now I am doing the mirror/pull with default settings. Let's see what it does in a minute or two
@freemo probably can, just can't find any menu option that suggests that is what it might do :)
@freemo I was going to just drop it and start over from scratch, but that doesn't seem to be an option either. I do hate feeling this stupid about a task like this...
@freemo yeah, the original is wide open since it is on GitHub
@Surasanji @freemo I can certainly see how that might put you off it
@freemo I assumed it had to be a pull
@freemo seems to fail the mirror now I am not sure what I did wrong, or where to look for the error
@freemo @Surasanji I think it is somewhat akin to being an inmate yourself.
@Surasanji @freemo I had an uncle that did that job down in FL all his life, other than stating that is what he did, he never really talked about it. So there's that.
@Surasanji @freemo That seems like a hateful job. I don't think I could do that one.
@freemo Anyway, I was hoping that you could post the puzzle/solution since I would like to further expand that as a conversation. WHen I shared the puzzle with a colleague he was reminded of a similar one with prisoners and their respective numbers. However, they were not given a swap. The idea being if each could choose his own number in the requisite tries he would not be executed. However, they would all have to succeed for it to work. The query in that case is what are the chances? So assuming there were no PC's longer than the requisite chances they would all go free. However, other than the brute force method of calculating and counting the PC's I am not certain of a formula for determining the distribution and size of them in a given group size. Seemed an interesting journey.
@freemo Seriously, my issue is more scrolling past the topic titles rather than looking in the actual text of what is posted. It might be written to the level of a 4th grader, but if I don't open it and look I will never know. And that is on me. But others may think similarly.
@freemo You have probably done so, but it still doesn't come across as conversational. I should probably just open and read one, and actually make a decision that way. But you know, books, covers and all that. :)
