Hello Mastodon/Qoto hoping there will be some interesting conversations here and less meglomaniacs pretending they're the savior of humanity.
Been doing web development for almost 20 years, currently working with #Typescript / #Javascript, #MongoDB, #Neo4j, #Angular, and #NestJs.
I'm interested in #Philosophy, #Politics, #History, #Complexity, #Physics, and #ComputerScience.
I have thoughts on #collapse and our current moment, but I'm feeling gluttonous at almost 500 chars for my first toot.
@gooseus Welcome, sometimes I feel like I can’t even save myself. :) Love to see devs joining qoto!
I am just starting out in embedded software dev, but when I get some free time I would really like to learn the web of things!
@derickflorian @gooseus
Glad to see more joining #qoto , one of the most-federated instances in the fediverse. Qoto has a reeeeeally large character limit and features/services others may not. Keep in mind that not all content you will see in your timeline(TL) will correlate with the views of others you're connected to. This is where one of the more common features other instances have as well- blocking. Blocking someone or another server does not impact others you are federated with, but gives you control over your own feed.
If you have any questions, I can try to help or at least point you in a general direction.
@lucifargundam @derickflorian @gooseus I'm new here but I'm seeing qoto on some suspended server lists floating around. Do you know why that might be?
@aut @derickflorian @gooseus
Another way to put it is-
Your friend's friend may not be your friend as well- you may like your friend, but dislike their friends. If you dislike their friends enough- you might choose to not associate with your friend in addition.
@lucifargundam @aut @derickflorian That's an interesting dynamic that I imagine would create a weirdly fragmented network...
I'm also new here and I'm unsure if it's because qoto is a low-key haven for actual phrenologists... or if the blocking servers don't like that qoto standards _could_ allow actual phrenologists a space to peddle their ideas to the impressionable and naive?
I'd be interested in seeing some analysis of the Fediverse and the various servers and server relationships?
@aut @derickflorian @gooseus
Qoto seldom ever bans other instances... Free speech is mostly allowed in all it's ugliness except when it means to cause direct harm to our own users.
Other servers may bam Qoto because of it's very open perspective on other instances. Meaning, to isolate server B from C (that's connected to Qoto D) B will defederate from both C and D even though there's no harm from D.