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

Interesting!

https://www.gadgetmatch.com/the-pirate-bay-streaming-service-baystream/

Retoot from https://todon.nl/@Bells/103296868104871811

"My personal warning to you if ever you choose to use pirate Bay for whatever thing... Please for the love of Pete to use a VPN. Personally I prefer boxpn.com because they have really good customer support... And they're not expensive... And they are backed by hackers... But whatever service you use please if you're going to stream from pirate Bay please please please use a VPN to a country such as Switzerland where it is not illegal.
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(2 of 2) These are my own original posts, opening the thread, as well as my replies in the discussion that followed.

The original thread contains all of the messages. Here: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103295870956494137

Thank you to @freemo for his dialogue on this thread.

I have just prepare a post at Qoto.org's Discourse Forum, grouping a series of Toots I posted here earlier today..

This is probably easier to read on screen. https://discourse.qoto.org/t/a-gentle-note-to-our-fellow-qoto-users-personal-reflections-by-design-rg/141

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@pschwede @punkymcmunky
Way to go, a lot of Boosts and Likes on your intro post, made Post of the Day on first visit.

Woot.... 😜

Things we see in the Feeds.

Steve Wozniak's original Apple I computer. LARGER images in the post linked.

https://www.design-is-fine.org/post/131971266669/steve-wozniak-apple-i-personal-computer-1976

@design_RG@twitter.activitypub.actor Clarification, post above done at birdsite due to annoying spam and chatter from a group of people attending a uni conference and invading the #Slowly tag, which is used simultaneously by different groups.

Sent a message to them, hopefully. #sarcasm #noise #slowly is for #writers

Power to the people #fediverse #newusers #CutTheClutter #xp
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RT @design_RG@twitter.activitypub.actor
#slowly is getting a lot of eager participation, maybe people not realizing the hash tag is used by various groups, interests.

Thankfully the MUTE button will quiet the chatter.

Yey, better now. #spamoff

No feelings were harmed on the production of this tweet.
https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1205222410208854016

@maison_faim ...Make a note of it, but where is the paper... and pen...

@realcaseyrollins You can see some of the content, but not all of it, as an anonymous user.

Some areas are just for logged in users, including a #Book Lounge.

@realcaseyrollins Not at the moment. I asked @freemo that, if possible.

You need to create an account there, username and email, verify email and you are all set.

Worth doing, and if we get more people using it can be very handy -- Content stays put into a thread, you can link to it from mastodon if needed.

Cool Badges we get for participating in our #Discourse Forums right here at QOTO.org...

https://discourse.qoto.org/

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com Group Hug!!! 🤗 😽

@realcaseyrollins If keeping the free account, you still have one hour, can catch BBC News for updates, Brit TV is SO MUCH BETTER.

Can't stand the American ones, other than #PBS.

@realcaseyrollins A free account will get you one hour of Free TV watching per day, they have 36 British channels, all the BBC ones, Channel 4, ITV, CNN International and MSNBC International too.

Great quality and affordable if bought in one year contract - 4 Euros per month in that case.

@realcaseyrollins BBC News is probably doing it full time, also Sky News.

See them in the awesome TVmucho site.

https://tvmucho.com

@freemo @arteteco @mngrif @Surasanji

Thanks Dr Freeman, I am happy to have expressed in a lot of detail what goes in my mind in this particular moment.

I think we are living a historic moment in the internet - the abuse and omnipotence of the large tech companies are finally clear enough that people are reacting, in different ways.

I feel we are in a new project all together, and like the way this is turning out to be. Have been putting full time work hours daily into my fediverse reading, writing, learning. Trying new things and expanding.

Went to bed pretty late last night, since I had joined a new instance and can't stand not to have a decent avatar and profile background; even if editing the bio was left for later.

I enjoy Qoto, and do not intend to push or take the system in a certain way. The way staff is open and dialoguing, that would be possible, but only if consensus was built, in which case the proposal would have merit.

Hope we can have a dialogue on any points you are interested in.
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