Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

if you sadpoast it makes everyone sad
if you horntpost it doesn't make everyone hornt

Anybody on Fedi want to do some light calligraphy for me? I can pay in paypal or crypto and don't have a strict deadline. Please boost

Where is the AI app that turns an overproduced 10 minute YouTube video answering a simple question back into text that takes 20 seconds to read?

Here we go again 🫠🤣 #Twitter

@TechConnectify I have a feeling we’re going to look back on this with the same level of “WTF were they thinking” as “More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand…”

Before it's gone, I'm running some tests with the gas stove. I want to make some comparisons over on Connextras.

Boiling approx. 5 liters of water (most in a pot, some in a kettle) brought indoor CO2 levels from 818 ppm to ~1200 ppm *with the extractor running*

And now that I'm in the middle of cooking a meal which needs the oven, we're here and climbing. This meter is approximately 30 (9-ish meters) feet from the stove.

It's not great, folks!

1440 as I hit Toot!

It’s now possible to redirect the homepage to any local path in Soapbox.

“Single User Mode” has been replaced with this feature. To achieve the same result, configure the redirect like /@alex and disable registrations.

This can also be used to redirect the homepage to the local or federated timeline. Multiple problems solved by this one setting!

@Moon In the future I hope burgers will start so look back on male infant genital mutilation and wonder what was going through everyone's heads.

Yeah yeah I know what the poaster is going to say, I know.

http is by defaullt public unless your server sets a disallow in robots.txt which is roughly functional to nobot tag. the precedent has been in place for like 29 years

People on Mastodon who whine about indexing of their public posts are like Chris-Chan...

They want to be public figures with an audience and a global platform, with all the benefits and trappings thereof... But they also want to be 100% invisible to anybody they deem a troll.

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Hot take: The absolute scientism of the left (lacking all nuance on scientific issues) is just as harmful as the anti-science rhetorc of the right... science is nuanced, remove the nuance and all you have is dogma.

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin