Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

Personal milestone on my #MastodonMigration journey. A majority of the serious #Twitter accts I follow & are tempted to #XP have joined the #TwitterMigration!

The content is already here on #Mastodon! No need to pull it out of the #birdsite.

Now that the Mastodon site uses "publish" rather than "toot" I feel a certain weight of responsibility when I hit the button.

Dragonflies are great hunters that can see 360 degrees. Their large eyes occupy almost their entire head and have only one blind spot located behind their head. Their eyes are made up of 30,000 visual units called ommatidia that allow them to see ultraviolet and polarized light.
iPhone 13 Mini + macro lens.

Las libélulas son grandes cazadoras que pueden ver en 360 grados. Sus grandes ojos ocupan casi toda su cabeza.Tienen solo un punto ciego ubicado detrás de ésta. Sus ojos están formados por 30.000 unidades visuales llamadas omatidios que les permiten ver la luz ultravioleta y polarizada.
iPhone 13 Mini + macro lens.

Libellen sind großartige Jäger, die 360 Grad sehen können. Ihre großen Augen nehmen fast den gesamten Kopf ein, mit nur einem toten Winkel am Hinterkopf. Ihre Augen bestehen aus 30.000 Sehzellen, den so genannten Ommatidien, mit denen sie ultraviolettes und polarisiertes Licht sehen können.
iPhone 13 Mini + macro lens.

#macro #makro
#macrolens #lentemacro #makrobjektiv
#macrophotography #makrofotografie
#insects #insectos #insekten
#animals #animales #tiere
#nature #naturaleza #natur
#shotonmobile
#shotoniphone
#dragonfly #libelula #libelle
#libellulidae
#spain #valencia

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

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

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

I'm happy to say that I've now onboarded another iOS developer for our app, and we are set on making another update to the app as soon as possible. I've also onboarded the first batch of new moderators for this server.