@Darkayne @rootadmin @realcaseyrollins Totally agree.
Guys, think about the whole community when you discuss this. An admin being an idiot in your judgement does not make a good case for silencing the whole community. After all, all admins, whatever we think of them, should be applauded for what they do for their users. And mind you, at qoto.org, you might not like the guy, but he's doing his tech job well plus, does not even ask for contributions from the community. And he should be thanked for that - regardless of what anybody thinks about him as a person.
@rootadmin @Darkayne @realcaseyrollins
Now what I am totally flabbergasted by is that admins have a run of their life with this, but in the end their feuds lead to negative consequences for me as a user.
That somebody doesn't like admin of my instance is a beautiful argument for blocking the entire community - without any good reason, just because somebody thinks the admin is an idiot.
Well done everybody there. Thank you. Prototypes of responsible and well-intentioned "admining".
What a mess.... There is only one solution: individual instances. Is that what we want?
Well, glad you take it just fine.
Personally, I agree with @satan, it's your communication style which makes it "not right". While it tends to be useful and effective in tech circles, it tends to work against you in social context requiring some diplomacy and getting people on board for a common cause. I know, because I use that style myself more often than I wish sometimes.
@satan In my view it's not a bad idea - I am pissed by the fact that many instances block qoto for no other reason than just they've heard rumors. As a normie user from inside I just don't get it.
So while the idea is not bad as such, unfortunately (my very subjective view) it is executed by not exactly the most suitable person (sorry freemo).
I suggest to consider the idea separately from the person behind it.
@mathias Well, my older one is 14 so it could be a thing too. Let's see. Anyway, your tips so far always worked well for me, so I'll certainly give it a shot 😉
Last thing about qoto's "you can't defederate from me" club I promise
As just a simple normal qoto user, I'd be interested in the response to @freemo's question too.
I observe this whole ufoi stuff happening and what is going through my head is this:
again and again there are these echoes of qoto being somehow nefarious/ugly instance, but I loiter qoto.org since 2 years now and I just don't get it. This is just a nice polite instance. The only thing I had to do at certain point was to mute whatever gleason*** stuff I didn't like which every now and then appeared boosted in my timeline and for the remainder it's just pleasant people all around. So I do not have a clue what people have against qoto. I do not want to start a flame, but I would love somebody from outside of qoto.org explain to me what the heck is wrong with our little community.
Personally, the only sensitive thing I see happening here is that when I open the federated timeline, I get bombarded with all sorts of stuff, not necessarily good for work environment, but I guess that is standard at most instances anyway - except for those which block everything by default and only allow few white-listed.
I laughed way too hard at this. May have pulled something.
@amicalucis just a little bit off.
@yngmar 😆 the payout level: is that a real tech term of theirs there, or did you edit the screenshot? Either way, hilarious.
@mathias I heard it's good, but did not check yet. Your take?
@piggo Having said that, I am typically wasting more time with the news than I need/should.
@piggo That's why most of the time just scanning of headlines in the newspaper gives you 80% of all information you need. The rest is just our infotainment hungry brain kicking in - from the remaining 80% of time spent (wasted) with the news, you only derive the remaining 20% of information which is of no higher value than the headline anyway.
> And wondering to how many folks reality just looks and feels like that.
Not mine. Fortunately. I am lucky to be able to build a more colorful existence - so far. But I recognise the bleak world clearly.
@Mr_Teatime I really don't know. You need to ask "at freemo at qoto.org" about this.
@z428 You breath on me a mood of life moving at pace day by day without much change and excitement, just "being" regardless of human joys and sorrows. Like a slow gray-mood movie from 80s. A gray mid-age man in a long non-descript coat smoking on a corner in a cold morning waiting for life to pass. A housewife full of well-hidden resentment towards the smoking guy cooking a simple family dinner in the end throwing it in front of him and the children at 6pm. No words, and if so, just a "shut your trap" response. It's not even sad.
What a bleak vision...
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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