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

@judgedread @amerika I use uBlock Origin in my various devices. Was suprised the other day when a newspaper site opened in an unusual browser (not Waterfox Android, which has uBlock in) and it was so completely overwhelmed by ads.

Can people use a newspaper site with that amount of junk? I found it disgusting.

I did read a post about some new AI project to mask ad content so adblockers would be broken. 😔

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/09/advantage-attacker.html

@amerika LOL....

@jackerhack @codelust@mastodon.social @zigzackly
I have been a user in a good community that had that founder death happen, and luckily it continued on. (MVgroup.org, a documentaries fans site)

Starting up a new instance/server by oneself is also scary, as over time you might get tired of operating it, or from the friction and demands a growing site can bring. Getting other users to form a staff and volunteer to assume moderation and maintenance, co-admin rules is essential. That is what kept mvgroup going, even after the founder and another senior admin passed away over the years.

@freemo @Surasanji That and the fact that we get exposed to unexpected content, which might turn interesting and expand minds.

I am very tired of the repetitiveness of posts on the Facebook feed, so barely visit and even less post there. I have a lot of Brazilian friends, most into Cycling, and they are split pretty badly into opposing political lines nowadays.

Even reading the news about the country I find depressing, and would rather have them from a good source, like the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

Meme, name calling and such, I have no need for. The country has serious problems (I immigrated many years ago in despair), and there's little we can do individually, or seating at a keyboard or tapping a phone screen.

@freemo You have done really well. This is a great community and service, thank you.

@freemo @Surasanji Yeah, I am not much into the cliques as well.

In the large sites, it might be a way to stay afloat though. I barely received any mentions or replies from posts in Twitter, so there's less reason to return. Hard to create a community there.

Here I was surprised on how soon I was receiving replies and boosts from other instances even.

The users here are nice as well, and the community size seems ideal; not too small, so there's action and new posts to keep us interested; not too large that we get lost on the flood.

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.