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

@puzzl Ah, glad you like it -- I find it makes the Widescreen experience really neat. Love it.

It will provide that wide screen full display in many other instances too, including many where the Mastodon AWI is very narrow and wastes a lot of space. With Collapsed Mastodon, it looks just like this screenshot above.

@puzzl For using the Discourse Forum and the NextCloud service, you just need to sign up for them -- each is a separate account from the Mastodon instance, unfortunately. We suggest you use the same name as you use in Mastodon, so people can recognize you more easily.

* Discourse forum is at : https://discourse.qoto.org/

* NextCloud is at : https://cloud.qoto.org/apps/registration/

@puzzl Hello and welcome to Qoto -- I am glad you like the place are are enjoying it. 😃

I like the Dark Theme, and run it in full screen on my laptop. With a nice add-on for Firefox called "Collapsed Mastodon" it uses all of the screen - as shown in this screenshot I am taking now.

It add a Toot Editor right below the post I want to reply to. 😉

Really nice article on Hack-a-Day for anyone interested in Cold War era History, Tech and Submarines in particular.

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/10/hide-silent-hide-deep-submarine-tracking-technologies-of-the-cold-war/

@Iambharani That's amazing! Thank you, had never seen it.

@freemo

Is that on the MacBook you were loading Arch Linux on yesterday?

Looks nice, although the R&M characters in black look a little sinister. 😃

@eletrotupi

@avatarashakti Hello, 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

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

Casey Rollins made a video to explain the Fediverse, here :

"I made this video awhile back to help explain how the #Fediverse works."

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XOtRcgIdqihs/
https://invidio.us/yBRrqbRQ3tM
https://youtu.be/yBRrqbRQ3tM

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

** I noticed you tried to use the html code to verify your URL in the profile -- but the idea is that you include that snippet of code inside a webpage that you own and can edit. Then enter that page's URL in the Preferences here.

If the page you linked to has that little code strip, it will verify you own the URL and show a green check-mark in the profile.

Have a good day!

@sbjohnsrpi Thank you Samuel for reading the article and for the comments. Glad you liked it.

I think that more localized instances serve a purpose, build community, help preserve and practice languages even. I just came back home and have been going thru the various open tabs I keep with the different instances, one of the most active, considering the number of users, is a localized instance, in Brazil, where posting happens in Portuguese, not a very common language in the Fediverse so far.

Given that it is possible to start an instance either individually or with a small organization, coop or similar guiding it, it's not had to see these happening.

On chosing the right instance, we got to hope that people get lucky on which they land on when first arriving here - mine was Qoto, picked from the joinmastodon.org, based on the description and theme. A month later or so I joined mastodon.social and had the impression it was a bit overwhelming, for me, let alone a new user.

If I had first landed there, likely I would not have stuck around for more than a couple of days - and not knowing there are alternatives, migth just written off the whole Fediverse experience.

#peace

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @gayocats
20742698.20742698
https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1215440626579210242

@raghavsharma Hello, 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

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

Casey Rollins made a video to explain the Fediverse, here :

"I made this video awhile back to help explain how the #Fediverse works."

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XOtRcgIdqihs/
https://invidio.us/yBRrqbRQ3tM
https://youtu.be/yBRrqbRQ3tM

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

Have a good day!

A really well made page that introduces and explains the Pleroma site's Front End to new users.

Pleroma can also be used with a Mastodon Front End, or FE for short, easier for users who are already in mastodon instances.

I like the project a lot -- many nice ideas and fresh air, they are pushing the envelope while in many places, getting a Maximum Toot Size larger than 500 characters is already an unacceptable request (been there, tried that, denied. Twice.)

https://info.pleroma.site/start.html

** For those of us who like to read and learn, the official Pleroma documentation is located at :

https://docs.pleroma.social/readme.html

❤️

@Sphinx The short code they show is how you would use the emoji once it's installed in a particular instance.

If it's not there on Qoto, it wouldn't display the emoji image. If there are some you like and would like to have them here, save them each to a small .png file and ask our admin, he can add it to the system -- like the -- which I personally requested and provided the source image from another place.

💕

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #xp #meow
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RT @TheSaltySeaCat
#ThrowbackThursday Even when I was a tiny pinch o' salt, I knew where to find a quiet spot when the wind was roaring round the chimney pots!
https://twitter.com/TheSaltySeaCat/status/1215201342379253760

Me, yesterday. Just so.

Dedicated to @cats - thanks for the great pics.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsofMastodon #xp
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RT @CatDisapproval
Join me for a snoozle?
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1215297000054325248

"BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X"

A nice article by Erin Pinheiro just posted on Hackaday.com. Recommended reading for anyone interested in UI and system design, Op Systems, evolution of comp tech.

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/

"Meet The BeOS
Could you imagine emailing someone a video file in 1995? Be Inc. did.

BeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous — things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design.

In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside. "

@rvlobato Thanks for the post, Ronaldo. I was surprised to find out recently, and confirming myself, that Microsoft is allowing an upgrade for Window 1 or 8.x systems directly into Windows 10, and the resulting install will have a digital license and be activated normally.

As long as the original O.S. was activated, it will work. I upgrade a Windows 7 Home Premium laptop to Win 10 Home. A desktop Windows 8.1 Pro system became Win 10 Pro, both installs were easy and no problems.

Surprising, since officially this free upgrade path had been discontinued in July 2016.