FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org

@6EQUJ5@tech.lgbt Try @apps

@pseudonym

The concept here is not to go with the crowd, but to invest time to find what is "exceptional" to you, plant it in a garden, weed out and grow 🙂 . In the end, after you "plug-yourself" enough, the network will start speaking to you and you'll quickly notice what is exceptional content. At which point mute and unfollow feature becomes handy.

@mark @geekmomprojects @FediFollows

@geekmomprojects Yeah, that sucks. I was annoyed by that too in the past. There were instances I wanted to interact with. But OK, you cannot force others to accept you if they think you are an idiot just because of an address.

I even considered moving away from Qoto, but @freemo did/does a really great job, the platform has features I really like (e.g., length limits, exploration of instance toots, etc.) and are worth way more than a block from instances which are too sensitive to the world.

Anyway, welcome and enjoy.

@cleoqc Welcome "a small dog person" 🙂

@geekmomprojects

@cleoqc @trinsec No clue what browser you use, Firefox has an add-on for that (probably not only one): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-google-translate/

I guess Chrome ecosystem has such too.

@peterdrake @users I guess you mean 2021. Well, @freemo said they had a lot of spam account or something like that.

@users Twitter exodus?

@onlmaps And what is exactly wrong about it?

You could create such a map for any "country"/region and it would look similar.

I see nothing wrong about it. Every geographically-defined audience also will have a specific geographical extent of high/low interests.

@piggo Look, you got it completely wrong. The value proposition is not for it to be re-used. Not even to withstand anything . It's only supposed to be "used". As in "as an event". At the given moment. You see? For a single purpose: to walk away with it.

@piggo Yeah. I was just lazy 🙂 .

Another poppy seed cake. Sort of a classic this one. Yet, one of my favourites.

#cakeposting @hob

@academicalnerd It's always nice to get some good news in the world: somebody feels better than yesterday. 👍

@academicalnerd Well. I feel that too. Sometimes I think these somewhat incoherent, but related thoughts:
1. for most of the history individual people felt like an object of history, rather than fully sovereign agents. In Russia even more than elsewhere, but it holds everywhere. Only the last 100, somewhere perhaps only the last 30 years gave us the opportunity to feel as masters of our own individual destinies. We internalised that feeling and often convinced ourselves that that is "the normal". But what if it isn't? What if it was just an anomaly of history? A bleak world picture there.
1. to deal with thoughts like that, I found stoicism (and perhaps especially it's more modern incarnations) to be a useful guide. Not that I am good on that path, but those thoughts occasionally help. In a way, they are not dissimilar to what me, as a non-religious person observe on most Muslims. They still interleave their speech with things like "insallah", which to me, signals a level of acceptance, if not even fatalism. I find a grain of that in life healthy - to understand that there are forces affecting our life beyond our reach (whether religious or not is besides the point).

Such things occasionally help me to overcome the despair and frustration stemming from lack of control over parts of my own destiny - and BTW, I am one of those who try very very hard to control it 🙂 - yet, in vain so far.

@academicalnerd

> it is somehow liberating

Is it? Sometimes I long for such a world. And it actually exists in places, but one needs to rid oneself of all ambition and fun at work. Then those places do indeed still exist.

@piggo Only for Oracle or IBM to take its place? I suggest: value the enemy you've got there. Not for what it is, but rather for what it isn't, but could become if it weren't there 😄 .

@pony See. Sudoku is not good for plants. 😄

@piggo That must be a highly intelligent plant there doing sudoku.

@pony