@SteveZissou
@freemo

As I often say these days, there's bog #mastodon. Then there's qoto.org Mastodon, ;-)

@arinbasu

I am obviously biased but I think we have hands down one of the best servers on the fediverse. Drama is very rare here and when someone comes who does tend to start it they never last long. Amazing for an instance which doesnt limit the topics we are allowed to talk about and generally encourages free speech (hate speech not being free speech).

Its the first time I've ever seen a social media community actually work and get a long. I love it here.

@SteveZissou

@freemo @SteveZissou

You have set up an extraordinary server. And an ecosystem that can enable people to do and write good science on #fediverse
Qoto.org is like #arxiv of fediverse.

@arinbasu

That is high praise indeed! Thank you.

@SteveZissou

@freemo @arinbasu @SteveZissou I’m very new here, but must say I’m loving this server! Excited to be part of such a great community which is not something I’ve felt on social media before! 🤩

@DrK

It makes me really happy to hear that. Me and many others here have committed a lot of effort to try to have a community mature enough to talk and not fight, to be respectful and decent without the need for much if any censorship (there is always the occasional bad actor, but its rare).

Myself and im sure my fellow long-time qoto members all appreciate very much hearing that you feel safe and at home here, and most important, you are happy to be here.

@arinbasu @SteveZissou

@DrK @freemo @SteveZissou

I too think this is really a good decent server; if you check the local timeline, you will discover nice folks around. The editor is well designed, and this server actually allows you to integrate other federated tools, that's fantastic. I also found nice uptime and so on.
#GoodInstance

@arinbasu

Very happy to hear this as well!

@DrK @SteveZissou

@DrK @freemo @arinbasu @SteveZissou
Me too! New and definitely out of my element on this server in terms of what you all bring to the table. Smart and thoughtful bunch here! It has been a fantastic experience and I am really enjoying being part of it all.

@MrsDi

I find just being STEM oriented really brings in a nice crowd... Being in the STEM world myself I am bias on this, but I always enjoyed the company of my fellow STEMies :)

But I think there is another aspect, QOTO has always had a big emphasis of "we wont censor you, but be respectful!".. Which has let us be an environment where you can talk about topics that often lead to fights in other contexts but here we amazingly tend to have very respectful and mature interactions anyway... I love it! It seems all the new people from twitter see that vibe and are going with it (its always concerning when there is a new influx in that regard)... so its really great to see that community dynamic being perpetuated and not dilueted.

@DrK @arinbasu @SteveZissou

@freemo @MrsDi @DrK @arinbasu @SteveZissou I am a newbie too (not #TwitterMigration though). I really appreciate all the post and hints as to how to conduct ‘business’ in here. Enjoying it way more than I should.

@apinae

That makes me so happy to hear! Really great to have you here.

@MrsDi @DrK @arinbasu @SteveZissou

@jweile

Sadly there is a bit of a bug with our latext right now, but i have it fixed in the source already and am going to attempt a release this weekend.. if its successful latex should work smoothly again.

@arinbasu @SteveZissou