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

The Economist, a favourite source here. #xp
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RT @TheEconomist
What the Dominic Cummings scandal reveals about the nature of the two men who sit at the apex of British government https://econ.trib.al/Ej9hXoa
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1267078390408007680

Ohhh. What a beauty. #CatBoxSunday for lovely Juno.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #xp
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RT @Miezebiene
Me and my banana are having a little nap in big Phoebe's box 📦🍌💤 Let's enjoy it as long as it lasts 😸😾 Happy #catboxsunday furriends 💓😽 *Juno* #SundayFunday #Sunday #CatsOfTwitter #cats #CuteCat #catslife #Caturday
https://twitter.com/Miezebiene/status/1267006203248496640

Not just a pretty Feline, but a *Smart* one too.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #xp
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RT @MacTheGingerCat
Since it's #Caturday for fun what's your cat's secret talent or ability?

Mac can open doors, all the doors in our house except outside & bathroom doors have a gap underneath & he's learned to stick his paw under & push/pull it open. 😹

#CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfTheQuarantine
https://twitter.com/MacTheGingerCat/status/1266831888800526338

LOL!!! thx. #xp
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RT @andymilonakis
Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice
https://twitter.com/andymilonakis/status/1266821069823975430

Murphy is recovering from the nightmare.

#BlackCats
#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #xp
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RT @EveningMews
Murphy is safe and sound after a fox visited our yard. I think he will want to stay in for a bit. 🙀😳👍🏻
#CatsOfTwitter
https://twitter.com/EveningMews/status/1267070298614042626

@Sphinx
You are very welcome. 👍

We all learn new things every day, and try to do our best while volunteering here. It's fun and motivating, specially when we have an idea and can see it growing and becoming part of reality.

@freemo @arteteco

@Sphinx Welcome to QOTO, I am also new here. I like your introduction, and chose Qoto for similar reasons - it seemed well managed, with nice policies for users, besides the large post allowance.

Sphinx would be a good nom de guerre for someone in Intelligence work, but very uncommon for normal day to day use.

@koyu@koyu.space @gioypi

Thank you!! 😺

We had a nice conversation here in the local timeline and I was VERY pleased to hear our fearless admin saying he was ok for trying out a Pleroma test instance sometime in the (near?) future.

Followed by evaluating, letting #Qoto users try it, and decide if a migration was possible.

I really like these two projects, both #Pleroma and #GlitchSocial are pushing the boundaries, inovating and giving us Proof of Concept. That yes, it CAN be done.

We have a huge database, so to move Qoto and all content is a major job -- and conversion tools for the database would be key to enable such a move. To GlitchSocial, I think it would be an easier path, since it's a leading edge Mastodon fork, not a whole new project like Pleroma.

@freemo mentioned seeing the users impressions - and I forgot to mention, but Pleroma offers 2 or 3 different options of Front End -- the part that us users see daily.

- The Pleroma FE, which is different and takes getting used to.

- The Mastodon FE, which is in fact a port of GlitchSocial web client -- the same one in use at Koyu.space, with the enhancements GS has, and VERY similar to a mastodon generic instance for a casual user.

...while the Local Power Users get the full goodness of MarkDown, or BBcode, if they want to exercise Formatting rights. 😛

That Masto FE is a good selling tool if a migration gets to happen. Future Beckons. 🌇

Two screenshots attached, 8-- pixels wide to save Bytes.

1. Pleroma FE in use.
2. Mastodon FE / GS in use, both at https://expired.mentality.rip/

@koyu@koyu.space

@xerz That actually looks pretty good. Nice to play with it without messing a real machine; ME had a bad reputation. 😛

At the time it came out I was a huge fan of Nt4 Workstation, still have fond memories of it, Including somewhere, a snapshot of a new install, the full system loaded -- and using a total of 18 MB of RAM.

Yes, 18 MegaBytes. A very short video nowadays takes that much. Floppies, 1.44 MB, and we had so many.

Thanks for the memories.

@freemo

> skijoring

Bing to the rescue!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skijoring

@Sphinx @arteteco

@freemo

Oh, ice skating. Popular here too. Some people build backyard hockey rinks to entertain their kids.

@Sphinx @arteteco

Don't I wish this could be a Standard post, with optional formatting if a user desired ?

It is, at a Glitch Social instance, where it was made and a snapshot taken.

#MarkDown is needed. #UX #UI #mastodon

Formatting included in this one :

- H1 Heading in first line.
- light touches of Bold and Italicized text
- URL link for Reddit page hidden under text description.

Not used but handy too :

- Quotes, OMG.
- Code tag with stand out text
- other Heading sizes.

Supported out of the box in GS instances. Thank you @koyu@koyu.space #KoyuJournal

@freemo
What's a Dutch winter sport, now that you mention it?

(we got Hockey, curling and more for the snow freaks here )

@Sphinx @arteteco

@freemo

I know, eh, but we are cool and not pretentious, just like them.

@Sphinx @arteteco

@freemo
Yeah, we are the Dutch of North America.

@Sphinx @arteteco

@freemo @Sphinx @arteteco No objections from Canada. 😛 🇨🇦

@whirli Thanks for mentioning these, whirli. I do have some older laptops and had wondered what version of linux could work well on them. I think I have tried, years ago, Lubuntu.

You would suggest Debian, instead of Mint, I gather? TY...

@Nacor Would it be this one ?https://qoto.org/@Nacor/104258581292197870