Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

@aotearoa_ben
Great to see you here! May we have a dedicated spinoff instance?

@aotearoa_ben
Mastodon is ONE app in an ecosystem, there are others in the #federared decentralised web. What exactly are the shortcomings? Do you mean Mastodon's or that of the fediverse in general?

Excellent summary from @jeffjarvis

https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/

A good summary focused mostly on #mastodon. Good to see popular academics and thought leaders across the #fediverse. Post-twitter world.

@NicoleCRust
Do you study microstates?

#TIL, For those in #stem or #research or #academia, https://qoto.org is the best option for finding an anchor in the #fediverse; @freemo has created an ecosystem where one can maintain codes, talk about work and life, and discuss -- a library and a water cooler all in one place.
Just amazing.
And instead of 500 characters, you can post stuff over 65K characters, plus add images and in markdown.
This is good, crazy good if you ask me!

@sitharus

Yes, exactly. A lot of us grew up in the days when they used to say that the web was not 'meant 'to be monetised.

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

@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
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?

@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!

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

@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
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.

@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?

@freemo
can you please explain a little more how we can write in \(LaTex\) here in qoto.org? Can we write greek characters and they will show up?

@kofanchen @giorgiogilestro

Yes, true.
When I started using twitter (2006), no one cared much about these things. We used to share status updates, and that was about it. Then others arrived shared papers and notes, and all of that.
This is the bit I like about qoto.org. We can share papers, codes, and discuss about it. Like arXiv, except the discussions happen at the same time as in a social medium. Qoto also because it allows $\alpha$ style posting, I think.

@Marian__Kennedy @gem_abbott

Mastodon is part of #fediverse, a universe of similar things that speak to each other. So, instead of a Mastodon instance, you can go to #pleroma and find a home there. From there follow everyone around, 🙂
A way to find out these things is to check out https://fediverse.party