@freemo

Thank you, I can see positive signs for the content I am focusing there. I considered other places where I have a longer established presence and like the community - Hackers.Town in fact, but if that was my base, my posts there would not be seen here, as they are not seen there if posted here.

As you know, that is the reason. Muensterland is a wonderful platform, a personal instance for me at the moment, and with Nickla's blessings, I will be adding content and inviting deserving people to join me there.

While keeping and being active people.

I try not to overwhelm this account with my beloved Cat posts and photos, so having M.S as a second base means I can do twice the cat posting per day, my runs are about 6 or so, then I pause.

I have Crossposters setup to feed into Qoto or MS equally easily, one letter change on a hashtag is all I need to direct a post to either one.

AND -- I find the posts I craft there are way more meaningful in Visual content, I must use that as it's available now. I know you are planning to bring it here, and thank you for the care and effort needed.

But even so, the reasons for a separate presence remain, just as strong.

my follower count there is growing organically - from people who noticed the posts and liked the content. I did not promote it actively, and the intent of this post here is just so interested people know what is happening, and there is more of my stuff out there.

In consideration to the local friends here at Qoto, I have already been doing the Real Release posts at MS, but copying a smaller, stripped down version and posting here, possibly with Local-Only, non-federating settings on.

@rgx

@design_RG

The point im getting at is your fighting against the inherent paradox of the fediverse.

The only reason that server isnt blocked by anyone is that because its so small it doesnt yet federate with anyone. None of the posts show up on the federated timeline of other feeds, no one notices it or hears from it, so no one has had a chance to block it, since they dont know it exists.

Organic growth on the fediverse relies largely on showing up in federated feeds and people noticing it. That ultimately depends on how well federated an instance is, which itself depends on how many collective followers it has. The end result is that even if everyone is reboosting yoru posts, no one will see it since it doesnt federate out.

I do agree the server will grow over time. but the thing is right now everyone has 10 or 20 followers. But the time any user on that server reaches 100 or 300 folloers like you do on QOTO at that point you will find your finally showing in federated feed and will have similar momentum you have here, indeed. But what you will also find is that now you've been seen by the radicalized instances like hackers.town and others that block indiscriminately. You will quickly find the server is blocked by half the fediverse and you are right back to where you started and need to move instances again.

In short you have two options on the fesdiverse.. 1) use a small unknown instance, have no voice or ability to grow, so there is no blocking but no federation either or 2) use a instance that is larger, highly federated, but blocked by half the fediverse.

I think your trying to compensate for something you cant compensate for. It may partly be because you dont understand fully the inner mechanics of how federation works and how people are able to see your posts or not through reboosts and federation, which depends largely on following count.

@rgx

@freemo

I like to travel solo and find my own paths, so thank you for the advice and suggestions.

@design_RG

@rgx by all means, do as you enjoy.. Just saying if your goal is to be heard, this is working against that goal is all.

@freemo Yes, it might be, you could be right.

I have chosen to experiment, and we shall see how it goes.

I am loving having a powerful dual processor server in a EU country as my home base. Honestly.

And the admin here is of the enlightened minority, just like yourself; experienced people, doing a labour of love, and providing services with little strings attached.

I couldn't do better if I took one on my spare servers and set up my own personal instance.

@rgx Our server moved exclusive to the EU and dropped its USA server at your request over a month ago BTW. Just saying.

Glad your enjoying it, keep it up :)

@freemo

Our server moved exclusive to the EU and dropped its USA server at your request over a month ago BTW.

Geez Louise, that is Important as you know -- and you never told me ??

Well done, though! #EU #Love #Culture #Freedom #Travel #Europa

@rgx

Well you asked me to, I said I would. Just figured you knew since I said I was going to do it :)

@freemo

Until it Happens, one can't count on it. It is not a small thing, and I would not assume it was done until the confirmation came.

US is in serious waters and I would rather be off their networks as you know. Reminds me to activate my VPN, permanently. a good move.

Doing it now...

@rgx Fair, probably would have been worth an announcement..

When I implement markdown in the next few days I'll wait a few months and then be like "oh by the way all this time you could have been using markdown donchano"

@freemo @rgx @design_RG I don't think my server will get blocked by that many instances as long as everyone behaves nicely 😃 It's very easy to get on kyzhs blocklist (and I didn't even manage to get on it yet lol) but most other admins do some research before choosing to block a instance.The reason for having so few followers there is that my main account is here and I don't use the other one actively.But federation is fully functional,nothing is preventing you from getting hundreds or thousands of followers.Well,maybe my bandwidth does but I'll find a solution when that starts to become a problem 😉

@nipos
I am greatly enjoying the service, Niklas, thank you -- and it is a pleasure to see a post I make there be available in all 12 or so accounts in my Pinafore client.

I got tired of people not seeing my content, and took action, as an Author, to get on an open platform.

Sadly here at Qoto that is not the case, and with some instances that are important to me.

@freemo @rgx

@nipos

I also plan to blog extensively of my reasoning and the current situation with this sad bunch that is in fact acting like the Fascists they are out to condemn.

@freemo @rgx

@freemo @design_RG @rgx I wanna say, I think it's not a concern, being on a small server. Mine is entirely private and I've got a good circle after just a week even though I'm just some rando! A cool rando 😎

@penny

I am happy to know that, Penny -- and it's my thought too.

Freemo is really worried about losing an active poster and Staff member here, but I have my own interests to look for too.

Muensterland is my new personal instance, and I plan to use it so; it's already working for me. Everyone's experiences are different, but I am a writer and publisher and the stupid fedi blocks are getting in the way of my content.

Unacceptable, so I have thought about and now implementing my own solution.

@rgx @freemo

@design_RG

Oh no no no, you get me wrong. I am not worried about loosing some of your content and posts.

I am just concerned with the logic behind some of your decisions rubbing off on others withoutt hem hearing the counterlogic, so they can make a more informed decision and hopefully let some of them know the down sides to some of your thinking or statements.

@penny @rgx

@freemo

They will be able to read, in Long Form and lavishly explained, the reasons, history and logic for the course of action I have taken.

Much better than disconnected toots here and there -- while I do consider, use and link to those in my posts.

Web Publishing is so much richer than the stuff we see flowing here, there's just NO comparison.

And anyone is welcome to read and post a response of their own; hopefully equally well presented.

You have one view, I have others. The course I plot is the one I follow.

"Navegar é Preciso, Viver não é Preciso " -- Fernando Pessoa.

@design_RG @penny

@rgx

Agreed, the point is, no one is trying to change your course. I am trying to present a counter view to your decision making process so others can see the other side and some of the counter productive aspects of some of the perspectives that guide your course.

Whether you agree with them or not is really not a high priority for me. Simply making sure they are present within the conversation for others to see and read is more my priority.

@design_RG @penny

@freemo

I am not into long winded debates, but have work to do. So off for projects we go.

@design_RG @penny

@rgx

Enjoy and good luck

@design_RG @penny