customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.

The 5000th GPF strip is officially in the queue. It will go live on January 4th. That's, um, a LOT of comic strips.

Mind you, there are already over 5000 UPDATES in the archive. Some of those are guest strips, some are bonus "Sunday comics" that were added before I did them regularly and thus weren't officially numbered. But this is 5k sequentially numbered comics. Now I REALLY feel old.

@customdesigned@qoto.org if you were to self host activity pub I wouldn’t use mastodon unless you plan to spend and have lots of users. It doesn’t work for small scale. As for this specific Que, honestly not sure, what’s gargons follow count?

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Iirc, activity0ub requires the server to "accept" and store the followers' info(inbox and such) so when you make a post their server would get notified about it(allowing for both notifications and simply to know if there is a post to pull)

@customdesigned Whilst this is all technically correct and useful, I think a bigger factor is going to be the front end for non-technical users. And that includes brands that want to have a presence and add that mode into their marketing campaigns. Lastly, sometimes a single user with high profile can bring an audience with them and dominate a particular platform, whilst remaining an average presence on others.

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

So I setup a list of maybe 30 highly active matrix rooms organized into Matrix Spaces on the QOTO Matrix server (though you can access them from any spaces enabled matrix server).

Just login to your existing matrix account on any server, or register for a free one at https://element.qoto.org (registration open to everyone). Then join any of the following spaces (make sure you turn on spaces in your config under labs first).

Please let me know if you have any rooms you'd like to suggest to be added to any of the below spaces. Also, feel free to create your own space and share it.

#QOTO_space:qoto.org - Rooms related to QOTO itself

#Fediverse_space:qoto.org - Various rooms from matrix servers that have a fediverse hosted as part of the same community.

#STEM_space:qoto.org - A collection of general topic STEM rooms like Electronics, Physics, Math, etc.

#Regional_space:qoto.org - Rooms specific to Countries, towns or regions around the world.

#Projects_space:qoto.org - Channels for various open-source projects

#linux-distros_space:qoto.org - Rooms for various linux distribtuion flavors.

#Matrix #Mastoadmin #OSS #FLOSS #FOSS #STEM @QOTO #QOTO