dbread @dbread@qoto.org

I've learned that there is an existing strong Mastodon culture. See the Hugh Rundle piece I posted yesterday, and then this, about why search here is the way it is: https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/

Now, the way things are going, quite possibly 95% of connected people across Mastodon will be recent arrivals pretty soon.

Culture can’t be enforced, it has to be proselytized.

Tl;dr: This is somewhere between fascinating and scary.

I found this a super worthwhile re-read: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

#freespeech #socialmedia #socialnetwork #fediverse #netpolitics #netzpolitik

Wow I mention Mastodon in passing on stage at #CYBERWARCON during a speaker intro and an audience of ~350 interrupts me with spontaneous cheers and applause

@freemo Thanks for detailed explanation & history. I'm even happier being on QOTO with that info in hand. This seems like a great community.

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

https://youtu.be/ycP6_fM6mb4

even as a #climbing enthusiast that grew in a land with tons of #ficus #trees - some are quite similar in shape to the complex shape of the strangler #fig (made by aerial roots that drop and turn into earth roots, and merge with the trunk or form another trunk) - i could not have imagined that tree climbing could be exciting.

@plants #plants