We have an election for the next #QOTO Moderator. Everyone is welcome to nominate exactly one person, including themselves.
Do so here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
Server Update
The #QOTO #funkwhale instance experienced a some downtime lately, not sure for how long. It has recently been fixed and the service should be back up and running.
The instance can be found here: https://audio.qoto.org
Please dont forget to nominate yourself or someone else in the ongoing #QOtO moderator election.
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
Important Announcement
Today we are beginning a nomination for #QOTOs next moderator π
Basically it works like this, any one of you can nominate someone from QOTO. The only restriction is the person you nominate must be active for at least the last month. You can even nominate yourself, but it usually looks better if you can get one or more people to nominate you, symbolically speaking.
The moderators will then select the finalists which if there is more than one person then the community can vote on them.
So for the next 2 weeks I will be taking nominations for the moderator position, and they can discuss their views as a potential moderator. Then we can pick who lines u with QOTO Ideals,
**Want to nominate simeone?**
Follow this link and pst your nomination: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
@design_RG I'll investigate, thanks,
Server Info
After an upgrade to the QOTO services all services are now up and running again. Downtime was ~5 minutes.
The following qoto services were updated:
NextCloud - https://cloud.qoto.org
GitLab - https://git.qoto.org
GitLab pages (including user hosted pages) - https://*.qoto.io
FunkWhale - https://audio.qoto.org
PeerTube - https://video.qoto.org
Discourse - https://discourse.qoto.org
Important Announcement
Today we are beginning a nomination for #QOTOs next moderator π
Basically it works like this, any one of you can nominate someone from QOTO. The only restriction is the person you nominate must be active for at least the last month. You can even nominate yourself, but it usually looks better if you can get one or more people to nominate you, symbolically speaking.
The moderators will then select the finalists which if there is more than one person then the community can vote on them.
So for the next 2 weeks I will be taking nominations for the moderator position, and they can discuss their views as a potential moderator. Then we can pick who lines u with QOTO Ideals,
**Want to nominate simeone?**
Follow this link and pst your nomination: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
For those of you who missed the announcement from the @freemo account just wanted to reiterate it here.
In honor of our new Indian friends we added two new emoji to the server.
Also if anyone has any emoji they want added, even if its just for personal use (like a monogram of your name or a picture of your own face, anything) we can add it. Just send a 50kb or less PNG image to @freemo and it can be added.
All my new Indian friends who found their way here this week (and others).
Dont forget to do two things to help you get some followers:
1) write a post about yourself, include as many hashtags as you ca think of along with the #introductions tag and a paragraph or two. I will reboost these
2) Go into your profile settings and opt-in to the proile directory. This ensures people can find you. It also helps if you add the same tags from your introduction post to your description in your profile. These tags help index you in the profile directory
3) Stay active and post interesting stuff (and some stuff relevant to STEM). If you do then on friday I will share your account in Follow Friday and help get you more followers as well.
@pschwede I think most are in the profile directory.
@mngrif Yea we still might... nothing official yet
The #QOTO bots should be live again. With that said they may be a bit noisy over the next 24 hours as we tweak them. A few are all set to go off in the middle of the night so they tend to publish all in a row. We will keep an eye on it and potentially unlist them as needed.
The #QOTO suite of services, including git, had some temporary downtime today as we addressed a bug in the system.
All services should be back up and running, no data loss occurred.
What feature would you like to see the Admin's at #QOTO add to our mastodon instance next?
If you don't see what you'd want in the poll just comment it down below instead.
@aeveltstra Happy to help.
@aeveltstra We don't only because this is the first time you asked. But I am now bringing up with the admins adding an official policy to our ToS and make it easy for people to opt-out if they request it. Obviously I need to research how this is done technically and how feasible it is (if it isnt maybe i can modify the code tomake it feasable).
But since this appears to be something that concerns at least some people (well one but i assume others might feel as you do) I would like to ensure your wishes are respected.
As a side note ONLY public toots, toots that would have been viewable by the person in the first place, are searchable. A person obviously can not search private toots in our cache if they wouldnt otherwise have access to it.
@aeveltstra Please let us know if this is, in fact, a request for take down. In the meantime I will be research how to do it, assuming it is possible. If I don't hear back no action will be taken either way.
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