Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
Tilly yips at me with her "baby" at her feet. I'm to take it and throw the doll down the hall. She races away, then brings it back with this huff-panting that sounds like laughter to me. Then she makes me chase her a bit until Tilly drops the toy for me to throw it down the hall again. I so love the sound of her running and her laughter! #DogsOfMastodon @mikmaqpeek
@freemo Actually, are my invite links visible to you? It's the latest one generated.
@freemo I'll DM the invite link. Issued just within the last hour or so.
Have you heard anything about Norton Chrome Extension calling qoto.org a "very dangerous website"? I sent an invite to someone and it blocked her. She used another browser and it's fine. Weird...
@helenangel Yay! Glad to see you here!
@profmobius and @searge, yay! It's cool to see people from #Minecraft around here. I actually originally joined the Birdsite to track what was going on with Minecraft. :)
@freemo Thank you! Learning the ropes here.😊
@freemo It does, I'm using it, but I expect "at some point" I'll need to create a post with thread entry points on that particular topic, bookmark *THAT* and remove the other bookmarks from *THAT* post. Or something. :)
@freemo "Lists" would be of people I follow, which is not the intent. I'll just bookmark thread entry points for now and see what turns up later as I learn this system. Essentially, as Questions get asked relative to, "Why is Qoto blocked/ why are you on that site 'everyone' is blocking?"
@freemo Yay bookmarked on the web site! I see where I can do "lists." I'm not sure that's the correct tool, but I'd love to organize links to the public side of this ongoing "conversation." One does not have to be a (insert various groups presumed toxic) to behave in a toxic way. I'm opposed to the toxic behavior, regardless of the ideology behind it, even if it is an ideology I subscribe to myself.
Toxic is toxic.
English: Welcome! I'm not sure why you are following me, as I do not speak Spanish. But I am glad if you find interesting things. I try to use correct spelling and grammar to make translation easier. I am happy that we can communicate past language barriers.
Español: ¡Bienvenido! No estoy seguro de por qué me sigues, ya que no hablo español. Pero me alegro si encuentras cosas interesantes. Trato de usar la ortografía y la gramática correctas para facilitar la traducción. Estoy feliz de que podamos comunicar las barreras lingüísticas pasadas.
@astrotoya Her eyes are MUCH better! We went to ER because they were nasty read and weeping puss. I'm not a doctor, and I didn't really want her to lose her eyesight.
@mikmaqpeek complained, "I look like a ghoul!" I replied, "Perhaps, but you are the ghoul of my dreams!"
I keep her laughing. :)
@YuriBrave
Yay! I'm glad the conversation was enjoyable. :)
@astrotoya You mentioned feeling ill on the other site. My wife's had a horrible sore throat, coughing, no fever. She ended up getting pink-eye. I've been putting drops in her eyes and she has several inhaler medications to help her lungs through this. She's getting better, but tires easily. I hope you get better soon too!
@freemo The app on my phone doesn't bookmark. I'll have to remember to catch this when I get home. This is such an ongoing thing. 😔
Romaq
boosted
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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,
Yay! My wife has a bit more presence here as @mikmaqpeek. Good to see you here!
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
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