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

@users Only 29 to reach 5,000. Less than an average day's enrolment at this time, it seems. 😉

@realcaseyrollins

I admire your courage, if you enter the lion's den and intend to confront it there. Wow.

I did some stealth looking around the periphery, and what I saw dismayed me.

Primitive discourse, manipulation, dangerous things, in my opinion.

I have to leave now, have a morning appointment and so sorry to leave a discussion hanging. But I will be back later and hopefully we can resume.

If people were respectful to each other, differences of opinion could be no obstacle to civilized conversation.

Be back later, guys. Have a great day!

@salad_bar_breath

@Walpraj

Hello Walpraj, and welcome to Qoto.

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Have a good day! @freemo

@Fabrice_tual You are very welcome.

One of the beauties of the internet is how we can find and admire great works of art; paintings, drawings, gravure, music, it's all there for the taking and enjoying.

We can reach out and admire that nice image.

Here's a link to a larger sized image: https://lesitedujapon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1.The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa.jpg

..while I will post a scaled down version here to not overwhelm the systems.

"The Great Wave of Kanagawa"

Image from : https://lesitedujapon.com/hokusai-36vues-du-mont-fuji/

@luki Very nice quote, luki, thank you.

I just saw your posting for the first time, have been here for only 3 weeks or so.

Don't know if you got used to the way mastodon works yet, but there's a nice user guide here, if needed: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Have a great day/afternoon/evening. 😉

@Fabrice_tual A beautiful image, nice impression for your first post, Fabrice. Bienvenue à QOTO!

Made me think of the gorgeous The Great Wave print, so intricate and expressive.

Hope you enjoy our instance and the fediverse. Any questions, please feel free to ask. Bon jour... 🌄

From the neat article about how Mastodon reacted and copped with the appropriation of it's software by a know extremist site (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking) which I posted about here last night, I discovered another nice one.

A gem indeed. Well written, thought out, focused, humble on its opinions.

I liked the whole article, and can relate it to my own past experiences in different places (BBSes, forums, DC++ hubs, etc) over the years.

Take a bit of time, turn off the distractions (silence notifications!) -- and delve into it.

"Run Your Own Social" is not only a case for starting and keeping a multitude of smaller servers/instances, but also it explains really well why Small is Beautiful and the way to go for best results in a social network, community building sense.

The author is the administrator of a small mastodon instance, and has been a Fellow on the Mozilla Foundation programme for the past year.

Hope you like, it. @salad_bar_breath , this is the one I mentioned a fw minutes ago.

@esperera_98 @_lunawinters

Good morning/afternoon/evening, dear friends. 😃

You are very welcome, that bulletin board is full of notes that made me think of you, both, upon reading them.

🌄 🌻 😎

@chrism Thanks for the link and the invitation!

I haven't played in a long time, so maybe playing with the bot for a bit will help me out.

Not that I need any more ways to spend time on the computer, lol, fediverse has got it covered really well.

I am facinated by all there is to explore here.

Thanks again!

@salad_bar_breath 😄 I am glad you enjoyed the article too! And I found another really good reference from it -- will post a separate new thread soon, to give it more exposure.

Hint : it's a well argued analysis on why keeping communities small is the best way to make them productive and healthy. 😉

@chrism Very true, Chris.

I have read another article on how that group has appropriated another open source project's work, the bravo browser, and 'forked it' to use for their own interests.

The developers of Bravo were livid, but with it being open source project they couldn't bar this from happening.

Surprises me that people would trust such a sensitive tool as a browser, and use one provided (built as a binary, an .exe) by a group that could use that as a surveillance tool, with even less scruples than Google .

@realcaseyrollins Thanks, glad you liked the article.

@_lunawinters You are very welcome. I found both the image and the message beautiful, and thought immediately of you. 😺

Have a great day, friend.

Just found this article, an excellent read!

"Over the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content that proliferates on larger and more centralized networks. Journalists hailed it as “Twitter without Nazis” and for years, it’s generally lived up to that promise. But last week, the social network Gab migrated to Mastodon — and Mastodon’s admins have been forced to deal with the internet’s Nazi problem head-on."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking

There are many Usenet new user guides, Bing lists a few : https://www.bing.com/search?q=usenet+tutorial+guide

Looked over a few of them and liked this one: https://www.ngprovider.com/usenet-newbie.php

They also have another page, listing the very important tool you need - the Newsgroups downloader software. Page is here: https://www.ngprovider.com/best-usenet-newsreaders.php

I did not see my old time favourite, called Alt-Binz, which is full featured and fast. https://www.altbinz.net/

It's probably not the easiest to use, but a powerful tool.

https://www.altbinz.net/index.php?page=about

** Speed! Note on screnshot below, a dload coming in at * 39 MegaBytes per SECOND *.

@freemo

I noticed the attribution in the posts to a Gab account. Looks like a provocateur.

A whole week, omg.

@sda

Usenet service - some very low pricing offers from Newsgroups Direct.

These allow you to access date from the Newsgroups, including the ones carrying Binaries - photos, video, data, apps, etc.

* Very fast to download, you are getting data from a secure server farm.

* No peer to peer connections, so no monitoring of who is sharing what.

* Files posted in the newsgroups will be around for a LONG time, unlike some of the p2p methods were people are interested at first, but later it is hard to complete a download, few seeders, etc.

I haven't used it in a while, but still have a bunch of data left from a Block I purchased from the company.

If you are Uploading (posting things to Usenet), that traffic is NOT charged to your block, it's all for download.

Takes a bit of learning, but there are good guides and the software has became easier over time. Give it a try. 😉

https://newsgroupdirect.com/#pricing

They have a sister company,. now offering over 4,000 days of binaries retention -- that's over 10 Years. Something posted in 2009 is still on their servers.

https://www.newsdemon.com/Usenet-Black-Friday.php

(Similar prices for Blocks of download.)

@freemo
Wow. 🙊

@sda

@mngrif
Just noticed your username text recovered from Down Under spell. LOL.

I liked it the other way, rather mysterious.

@doomba

@sda Thank you for the link. I read thru that thread, although it seems to have branched out from a previous discussion. The user probably posted a reply in the Local timeline, as a new topic, by mistake.

I notice quite a bit of spelling errors at first glance.

And sometimes people will have language that irks others. I remember a couple of recent threads, when a user posted requesting confirmation that the free service he was enjoying here offered certain guarantees.

I knew he did not intend to come thru as adamant, but that is a possible interpretation. Freemo engaged this user and knows more about the discussion, he's also the admin and provider of the service we enjoy.

I think it got to him. I can see myself getting annoyed by some of the discourse I observe in certain places, which, after observing, I avoid.

Sometimes it is best if a team member can help and take over the moderation, if the person currently engaged on it is getting affected personally.

The theme of that discussion is beyond me, I did not participate, since first seeing the equation post/challenge the user posted.

Moderating a topic like that would take specialized knowledge and experience in the area. Plus the patience to handle the form the user expressed him/herself.

@freemo

@sda
Those quotes are pretty nasty. All of them from the same message, or from the same author?

Links would help, if you don't mind. Thank you.

@freemo

@esperera_98

Gracias, cL, eres muy gentil. Casey puede veer las mensajes ahí, y se quiera, escribir-te.

Muchas gracias, siempre un placer, señorita.

@realcaseyrollins