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

@snow
Bing seems to have some promissing links : https://www.bing.com/search?q=internet+surpport+groups+for+child+abuse+adult+survivors&PC=IS45&PTAG=SYS1000000&form=ISCHR1

@crackurbones

@freemo @realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social @mngrif @arteteco Oh annoyances of the Internet. 😔

Will keep an eye for odd new posters.

@snow Thank you for the post, and for including me as an example of the INTJ types. A nice list of interesting people, even HAL9000 being included. 👍

@arteteco @freemo @snow @mngrif @users @QOTO I also have animations in general disabled, as much as possible, they seem more of a distraction than content. The design Snow has made is pretty and colourful, but I can foresee some backlash (as Freemo mentioned, regarding the Arxiv bots).

Some people don't like to see instance features as a new user attraction factor (these people are usually supporters of the 500 chars hard limit, Eugen included).

I like the current qoto announce bot avatar, it's the same image that is displayed at the joinmastodon.org site, isn't it?

@elbeladi Hello, Ahmed, 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

@freemo Ok, it's a plan then. 😄

@freemo Maybe I can work on creating some tomorrow afternoon.

@freemo @khird @realcaseyrollins Went to look at how these Quotes look like in Pinafore, and it's indeed underwhelming. 😔

Bummer, as they work so well in the webclient.

@freemo I think it's too new to be popular yet. We will likely need some posts explaining the various new features (with illustrations!) before they gain traction and common usage.

It is an essential and long missing feature - we were lucky to have Full Text search working well here in the instance, which until now was my life saver (to dig my own posts where I had explained something in detail, frequently, for reuse as necessary).

@realcaseyrollins It is already in use in the local timeline - Qoto users are already discovering it.

Now wait for everyone else asking "how did you do that?"

@freemo That's quite interesting. A nice way to bring some post found in the Home or Federated timelines for attention and comment in an instance's own Local one too.

@freemo Neat, and the inner quote is a live link to original post. 😃

@QOTO Very nice, got to mention the numerous new Colour Themes options too. Just getting started experimenting with them, so many new choices possible.

@freemo Thank you, found it.

@freemo Have been looking for that -- and still not found it. Where does one access this feature?

@freemo It worked. Thank you!

@QOTO Nice work, thank you for all the time researching and building these extra new features.

Let's hope this update goes smoothly too (the last one was unreally smooth). Crossing fingers! 😛

@juanacontrerasg Hola, Juana, si, hay personas de Chile al Fediverso, y muchas otras que siegen las noticias cerca el pais.

Puedes veer mas con una busqueda, quiza una hashtag como #chile . Encontré varias ahora mismo.

@realcaseyrollins It was added in Mastodon 3.0.0.

Eugen decided to add it, coded it, and overnight it was online at his instance. There were some nonplussed users about this -- yesterday one of the trending topics was all Bots pushing Twitter posts.

@snow

I had mentioned a couple of good reference articles, about what happened when Gab decided to use Mastodon as their platform and barged into the Fediverse. Copying the links here for reference, specially The Verge article, really good.

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Went looking for some references, I recall reading a really good article describing the situation and the Mastodon developer dilemma on what to do, when Gab appropriated the open source code for Mastodon (which he couldn't oppose, with it being open source) and forked it into their own version.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/

And some commentary from a page I am still reading, seems a conservative voice but explained with reason : https://reclaimthenet.org/mastodon-blocks-gab/

AHHH -- found the article I wanted to link here, it's on The Verge : https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking

@freemo