@freemo
Thanks a million. Also, there seems to be quite a few other options such as Nextcloud accounts and so on. Are these also open for those of us who are using qoto.org for our social media or do we need to create separate accounts?

@arinbasu They are certainnly open to you. you need to create accountns on the respective servers (and in some case get permission from me to activate your quota). But yes they are welcome for you to use.

@freemo
This is fantastic! I just created an account on NextCloud, says it needs admin approval, so that is OK. I also see there is gitlab and peertube instances open.

@arinbasu There sure are, and gitlab gets you a free ultimate license with all the bells and whistles (nnormally 100$ a month).

@arinbasu I anabled you and gave you 10 gigs. If you need more space I can easily give you much more, just let me know.

@freemo
Endless appreciations!

This is marvellous! So qoto.org is an entire ecosystem of free apps and mastodon and peertube etc tie into it! This could be excellent for building serious scholarly discussions on the top of #fediverse, and #qotojournal for example builds a knowledge base.

@freemo
Sorry, free and open source apps, I did not necessarily meant free of costs.

@arinbasu yes exactly and that is what the intent was, to create an ecosystem of free, opensource (and ideally federated) apps that can work together to enable STEM professionals to collaborate on open projects.

gitlab acts as a source repository

funkwhale acts as a way to do podcasts

peertube is a replacement for youtube for posting videos and media

discourse acts as mailing lists for projects (I can setup sub forums for any specialized projects)

Stuff like that. Where possible i tried to use projects based on ActivityPub so they are on the fediverse. For example you can follow a peertube account from your main QOTO account here. That way when someone posts a video on the peertube account it will show as a post here in your home timeline. So everything (where possible) all talks to eachother.

@freemo
Yes, I can see this, and this is fascinating. Perhaps, in future, there can be something like link and citation sharing federated tools such as lemmy.ml and bookwyrm (where books can be catalogued) be there as well. A lab can have an entire portfolio on qoto.org, starting with a webpage hosted in gitlab and then discussions around here ... Wow!

@arinbasu Yup I plan to add some of those techs in the near future too hopefully.

@freemo
This is amazing. You seem to have taken the idea of fediverse and how it can scale up to its limits, 🙂
65K character count hits it out of the ballpark, then all these integrations!
What is your vision?

Thanka. Right now i just want a place where stem professionals can collaborate, have fun and have a place that feels peaceful to chat... what social media was meant to be just geared towards us nerds ;)

@freemo
To that end, have to say that you have created a near perfect ecosystem. The only bit that can stretch it a little more (I can imagine you are possibly working on it, :-)) is something of a federated editor, 🙂

@freemo
I mean, a code editor, say federated Octave/Jupyter Notebook if ever there was one ...