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

@greylaw89 I believe the digital alternatives have value, but limited durability compared to hard copy.

And it sh1t hits the fan, as might happen, a local book collection might become the core of a local library. I do not discount that possibility.

Besides, not everything gets into a digital format, one way or the other.

The main value I assign to a printed book is the actual content (words, images, ideas), versus it's value as a cultural artifact.

And it's official -- the Release version of Microsoft Edge browser, the new branch which uses the Chromium rendering engine, is ready for Downloads.

In Windows, iOS, Mac OSX, Android versions.

See it at : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

ES 🇪🇸

Y ahora es oficial - la nueva version del navegador Edge de Microsoft está pronta para quien quiserla.

En Windows, iOS y Android para los telemoviles, Mac OSX también.

Veer a : https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TVert&from=&to=es&a= https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

@greylaw89 It's an interesting view point - but a lot of value is lost when you recycle certain materials.

For example, a book or a DVD.

The paper on the book has minimal value, while the words, the contents might make that particular copy precious, since there might be no other one around, or the price is high.

I enjoyed reading and seeing the reference that the Brits are more accepting of used goods and look for them. I think there's a lot less disposable income there too, compared to a more prosperous American urban area (along the Coasts, for example).

As things change and the costs, available materials, quality of goods change, people might be more accepting of used goods. Sometimes much higher quality than new articles made to be disposable and keep the retail space in profits.

@freemo Done the edit, Delete Redraft to the rescue. 😃

Thank you for the suggestion!

#QotoJournal is being launched.

We had a suggestion made and considered, and a discussion thread posted at our Discourse Forums - see : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org/180

The idea is to have a default hash tag that can identify more serious posting, articles, blog pages, etc being produced by members of our instance.

The discussion has been opened for two weeks, and I feel it's time to launch - so here it goes, we are adopting this as our tag.

* For the tag, the text case doesn't matter -- QOTOJournal, or QotoJournal will give the same results.

Will prepare a separate post later with suggestions and guidelines for posting content, to create a bit of a Style we can identify at a glance.

Thank you to my friend who sent this idea, and to all who supported it, participating in previous discussions here in the Local feed or at the forum post.

My thoughts on the matter were disclosed also on my blog at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting

** This post was edited via "Delete/ReDraft" to incorporate a suggestion of using QotoJournal -- without underscore, as it seems a good idea.

@freemo Fair enough, havign the most people using is really important., so we can switch to it.

There's only one post in the other tag (mine above), so not late to switch.

** I can delete/Redraft it even, although our whole sequence here would be orphaned, but I think it's worth changing.

Was worried about Readability, but it shows nicely on your post above. Screencap:

@activenoisecontrol
The problem Snow was mentioning is that there's materials of an Adult nature, not here in our own instance (qoto.org) but out there, and it shows in posts in the Federated timeline.

Besides nude bodies, there's escort services, sometimes quite aggressive images which might not even be covered by a CW, a Content Warning that will hide the text and image until a user selects to click to show it.

Goinf back to the question of using in a educational or even a business/professional situation:

- yes, each instance is free to create and maintain, enforce their own rules, Theme line (what they intend to focus on), etc.

- each instance needs an administrator, capable of dealing with server maintenance issues, upgrades, etc (unless you contract some hosting provider that can supply these services).

- and each instance needs a team of moderators. In most cases, volunteers, users who chose to support their instance and take on that job (my case here at Qoto).

- staff is in most cases not paid. If it was a professional or educational situation, the admin might be a local IT specialist, and the mods could be experienced users, doing that as part of their daily activities at work, and so compensated as part of their normal salaries.

@snow

@freemo Would you prefer using that one instead? It's early in the game and we could switch.

I though the two word (separated by underline) might be more readable, perhaps?

@greylaw89 No, not yet, unfortunately.

Twitter has an advantage on that front as they do offer an auto-translate that works on demand (for a single post, when you really want to know what it says).

Even Japanese is handled pretty well.

@snow Uhm, I gather you don't like it? 😛

I do, and have been with it since the Beta testing days, before the release. Never liked Windows 7, and personally loved the Server versions best of all.

Server 2003 was sadly missed when the support ended, I enjoyed it as a Workstation O.S. for years. Stable, fast, no eyecandy unless you cared for it. Perfect.

7 was always sluggish in comparison. 10 has a lighter design and runs beautifully on a big variety of machines, new and old. I am impressed.

Op systems are Tools, and whichever you prefer should be one that gives you a good stable environment to work in, and supports apps and features that you are productive and comfortable with.

All the tools I depend on for my work and project until now are Windows based, so I stayed with it; I do recognize advantages in Unix and the linux distributions. But being productive is #1 for me at this point.

Found on the #Windows7 hashtag traffic. 😜

"Your vehicle is now connected to Microsoft.

Upgrading to Windows 10. 38% done. Estimated remaining time: 150 years."

#humour #french #tech

@snow That is true, it's a valid concern. There is a lot of inappropriate images for younger or more sensitive viewers floating by in the Federated lines.

I have seen and read some articles mentioning the possibility of using Mastodon instances in education, but they would all be running in Whitelisted mode only -- selectively federating only with nodes included in the Whitelist maintained in each of those instances.

Smut for profit is not attractive, a shady side, I agree.

@snow I think they might disable ad blocking functionality internally, in their code - so even worse than removing the add-ons, which people might still find in other places and side load.

@snow Firefox to the rescue.

Chrome, I am not using it or interested. Google revenue depends on advertising, they have an interest on tracking people and showing, selling data and ads.

@freemo
That suggestion by Vijay was an interesting one (I did read his whole list, impressive). It could be adapted to suite your original intention here (adding an alt-image text description, after the fact).

Maybe considering things like the correction being made by the original's author. And using a triggering expression, clearly intended to request the action.

Not allowing editing of posts in Mastodon is mostly by design, similar to twitter's stance. While Friendica has Edits available, with a history kept, similar to FB.

@vjy @ff0000 @n0btc

@realcaseyrollins That's great, hope you have an enjoyable day, Casey!

@realcaseyrollins Good morning, someone is all chirpy!! 😃

@pschwede
We had a good and lively discussion here, right at the Local feed, back in November. Then a request was made that we transferred it to the Discourse Forum, and I prepared a thread there, with links back here to most relevant posts, but it never had much participation.

Thread is here : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-non-english-and-foreign-script-posts/102

From the various posts from various people, it seemed improper to limit the membership to English only, or even European languages only, as it could be perceived as exclusionary.

We had an influx of Indian users at the time (November 2019), and a lot of unfathomable script that we couldn't even moderate unless alerted by someone else about improper contents. That has receded it seems.

Late December brought a wave of Spanish twitter users looking for a better alternative, and a number of them chose Qoto as their new home. Thankfully this is more manageable for us, in questions of understanding the contents of posts and even responding to them.

There is also another thread in the same forum, regarding the Theme line and what to do about it - an important one, that had lively discussions here in November, but has fizzled out lately.

Here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-preserving-qotos-s-t-e-m-focus-in-a-time-of-growth-steering-site/103/7

Both of those threads are in the Moderation section of the Forums, and a user login is required to see them. They do not require higher user account priviledges, but simply a registration and email confirmation to access them, if someone doesn't have an account at Discourse yet.

Or we could reopen talks here as well, if someone desires.
@freemo

@users And we are over the 7,000 Users mark!

I had seen the joinmastodon.org page listing Qoto as "7K" users, but now we are officially over this mark.

@snow Ah, thank you!