*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

Yes, I agree that you are doing great.

I followed a thread at another instance earlier this morning, and DMed a user there who was looking for longer post limits among other things. He was grateful and should be coming check out qoto soon.

Lucky for me I found qoto right off the bat, after reading the Mastodon listing of instances and liking what I saw in the qoto listing.

@freemo @Surasanji That's very nice! Thank you!

@freemo The word gets out. Once people join and get comfortable, they might tell friends and a new wave might come. It's nice to know. 😃

@freemo @Surasanji Not for the followers count, but working on the community and helping out is a good thing. Not only good Karma, but you help make the place even better.

Large places like twitter or facebook are much less personal, and people might get together in little cliques.

I enjoyed participating in Forums much better, themed ones which I was interested in. FB has some good groups I enjoyed participating and learning on, but finding information in them is impossible. Terrible architecture, compared to threaded posts in Forums, subforums.

@shibaprasad I think Musky is a fork of Tusky, which I use and like on mobile (surprisingly, it feels right, while I usually would rather use a laptop for everything).

Musky was developed to allow some kind of speech the authors thought was being blocked by Tusky, from what I have read.

@Surasanji @_lunawinters Go for it, Aaditi!!

It's a talent I never had. REmember playing with the cube a lot when it first came out, but not knowing any solving method. I managed to solve two faces simultaneously, once, and that took a lot of manipulation.

But its not the way to solve the complete cube.

Do you know the NY Times new Tiles game? I enjoy it for relaxing. It's pattern matching, and they are constantly coming up with completely different tile sets and trowing us off. 😃

See it here: https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/tiles

@Surasanji 😃

Finding the Cats bot here in Mastodon really made it feel like home. My fave posts in the birdsite, always cute ones.

@Surasanji indeed we can't change them. Reminder to keep local collections of audio, video, documentaries as all those web based resources fade, sometime fast. Impermanence is sensible with digital media.

@Surasanji That's disappointing.

As much as finding that older playlists I had now have lots of "lost" songs on them, licensing not renewed, puff, they are gone.

Rdio was the best streaming service imo, sadly it closed down. 😞

@Surasanji Thanks for the translation. Had seen and was puzzled by it. 😃

Mercury crossing the face of the Sun, this morning. Amazing how small and how close the planet is.

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/2019/movies/Mercury19_AIA96s_211/In/Mercury19_AIA96s_211_In.mp4

@doctorow Very clean and a perfect example of Brutalism. Buffalo has many great buildings, from various periods, including some upper class family homes by Frank Lloyd Wright. Love the city.

@Endopro Welcome, you found a good place to call Home. 😃

New here myself, just joined last week. Enjoy and share some things you like with everyone else here.

Cheers! 🍻

@togs Welcome to QOTO, Duncan, and good luck with the job search and future developments.

I think honing your skills and focusing could be a good path ahead. Finding a project you are interested on and collaborating with other people, maybe?

All the best. 😃

The Northern latitudes is where the impact of climate change, temperatures raising is showing most clearly.

The permafrost, frozen soil under very large areas of Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada is starting to melt, releasing a lot of water in the Spring (with floods being worse), buildings badly affected by softer soil underneath their foundations.

Gas and Oil pipelines with hundreds of kilometers lengths are built on those regions, and can be damaged by shifting soils. Major leaks can result.

The melting permafrost also leads to ancient vegetation in it starting to rot, and releasing vast quantities of CO2 and other gases, as well as noxious rotting smells.

Saw a really good report on the Washington post on this subject :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/

@Karthikdeva I think the Northern latitudes is where the impact of climate change, temperatures raising is showing most clearly.

The permafrost, frozen soil under very large areas of Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada is starting to melt, releasing a lot of water in the Spring (with floods being worse), buildings badly affected by softer soil underneath their foundations.

Gas and Oil pipelines with hundreds of kilometers lengths are built on those regions, and can be damaged by shifting soils. Major leaks can result.

The melting permafrost also leads to ancient vegetation in it starting to rot, and releasing vast quantities of CO2 and other gases, as well as noxious rotting smells.

Saw a really good report on the Washington post on this subject :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/

@mostlystardust Very nice, impressive introduction. Welcome to Qoto, Abhijith!

@_lunawinters That's sad.

Both of those are mind sharpening exercises. Maybe hand him the cube and say, can you do it?

It's not an easy thing. Stay with the things that you enjoy, even if people dismiss them.

@_lunawinters Sometimes I run over an insect crossing the road on my bike, no time to react since they are small and you only see them when you are too close.

Does feel wrong. Nature built that life, and we casually sniff it. 😔