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

@globcoco @hansw

Oui, j’ai un cœur et une âme européens, semble-t-il -- je le sens fortement quand je suis là, c’est difficile de retourner en Amérique du Nord.

Je n’ai eu Français classes que pendant deux ans, en tant que sujet à l’école primaire; Je peux comprendre beaucoup plus, lire, que je ne pouvais parler ou écrire. Mais c’est une belle langue.

En voyageant dans ma patrie ancestrale bien-aimée, le Portugal, j’ai rencontré et conversé avec des gens de nombreux pays.

Un matin, je me suis même engagé dans une conversation, dans une jolie petite auberge à Lisboa, avec un couple Français, non scénarisé et sans aide par la traduction; c’était amusant.

Et je leur ai dit que j’aimais même les entendre, les sons et la fluidité de la langue.

Il m’a dit que oui, c’était comme des petits oiseaux gazouillant, et nous avons eu quelques rires, café et apprécié un bon moment.

#rgxJournal pouquoi non?

@globcoco @hansw

>> Hence what you do! This is so important!

Thank you -- your perception never ceases to amaze me. Indeed.

The Local feeds can make or break an instance. Qoto's was broken, very recently, and I nearly dispaired.

It is hard to affect change, one single user no matter how active can't do it alone.

I had some encouragement from the quality posts and support that @Phaedrus gave me -- he knows what I am talking about, as he was the first person to write about

"Make Qoto Great Again" -- and we did, managed to turn the ponderous ship, weeded out some obnoxious accounts, created a small lock at the front door (the new user questions, which surprisingly few respond to; all blank forms are rejected outright , of course.)

This, I am happy to acknowledge, was my idea and suggestion, peddled to the staff and accepted; we all are happy with the reduced intake and the amazing rise in quality of our local feed.

This depends on the contributions of our users -- but sensing a friendly and rich environment, people will come closer and interaction will happen.

On that front things are working well.

Hopefully we make progress in the instance tech side, as I am dissatisfied greatly with mastodon, as I make abundantly clear (it's a campaign, of course).

If we improve, great. If not, m presence would fade somewhat, as I pursue my own aspirations and settle elsewhere as a main account.

The Home feeds, I haven't looked at in recent times, as you can imagine my time is taken with my own active presence. But they are good to discover cool people in other instances.

And I wish to participate on them once again.

My FAB account is now Pleroma HQ for me, and there's ziliion Notis there waiting for review and responses. I love it! 📩

#rgxJournal #FediReporter

@globcoco

>> Thanks to the *extensive* fedireports that you made Yann, I feel we can find our way.

And on that sense, I drop a mention to my most popular Blog page so far -- take a look when you have a chance, or bookmark it. There is a section in the second part where I review and describe some of the instances I had accounts at the time. mastodon.social is included.

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

@hansw

#FediReporter again!

@globcoco

>> Maybe he'll be back or not but what he gave you - as inspiring you to nourish your own creativity - is priceless and beautiful

Thank you, yes, really. Very much like our interactions, which are just wonderful too.

Certainly hope we could meet again.

@Full_marx

@globcoco

Oh oui, sûrement. Un pot comme ça.

Il m’enchante, le Français, je souhaite tellement pouvoir m’exprimer librement et couramment pour converser avec vous sur elle.

@hansw

@hansw @globcoco

Much on a user's experience depends on the instance they live in. I am very happy I selected Qoto as my first one -- based on the small amount of info displayed about each in the joinmastodon.org pages.

Turned out well, and I am still here, active and putting time, effort and love into this. But I have also kept an open eye, curiosity and have been exploring, scouting on the vastness of fedi.

There's more, lots more, and I enjoy the discovery as much as going for long walks in an European city for the first time.

No maps is my usual approach, serendipity is lovely. I end up tired but so satisfied with the experiences I find.

Mastodon.social is the Twitter of mastoworld.

If I had joined there as my first instance, I wouldn't have stayed for 3 days even, I imagine.

I do have an account there, and there's a purpose for it -- but it's minimal in the day to day operations for me.

#FediReporter on the beat, #rgxJournal logged.

@globcoco

Yes, in considering online communities, the platform being used is important and can affect things tremendously, but the people themselves, the interactions, it is the most important part.

Finding a good group, which we feel identified with, and being accepted is so rewarding.

The cool kids are not in mastodon anymore.

@hansw

@globcoco
Thanks, Coralie, I will add to my large To Read tabs list. 😋

Le café est bon ça matin. Bon jour!

@hansw

@globcoco

Important to notice that this is an informal campaign also, poking fun at the idiots on the fediblock hash tag, which are prone to posting Ban suggestions for the very stupidest reasons.

Freeaking Fascists that they are.

@hansw

@globcoco @hansw LOL, thank you!

I really had fun there, a great crowd, friendly, intelligent, sensitive. We had fast chat, the pleroma systems seem to encourage that -- when you come to mastodon it really feels. Ponderous. Slooooow....

And I saw so many people with the "banned for [insert reason here]" that I thought it was a neat idea, and joined.

Later used it here as well.

@globcoco

You don't need to use hashtags in all posts, they are useful when applied lightly and with care.

I use a couple, as I mentioned -- and for me, nomad on the lanes of the Fediverse, they allow me to find posts no matter where. That is so very cool.

I absolutely despise the idiots (typical at instagram) that put hash tags in every word in a post; that is not only ugly, but a wasteful use of computing resources.

The idea is that hash tags will be indexed -- which requires processing time and storage. If we polute the database with noobie, senseless tags like instastooges do, it only slows down ANY searches using hash tags. Nice job, noobs. NOT.

Karl disappeared back in December, and I have missed him much, He posted a couple of toots sometime later, but that was it.

We had some great conversations -- like with you, they brought back memories and allowed me to wax poetic, which we both enjoyed. Inspirational, pleasurable. Fireside chats.

But we have to accept life's transitional nature, and ejoy the moment, while still honouring the people we remember with fondness.

You are missed, dear friend. Be well, wherever the road takes you, @Full_marx .

#rgxJournal #FediReporter

Partners.

#Firefox to the #Rescue #Waterfox 4 me.

Update :

I have just finished posting a new Suggestion issue at Glitch-Social's Github.

...which summarizes the findings I described in a Forum post, and requests consideration of the idea of adding these enhancements into the Glitch-Social code base.

Forum post : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/mastodon-screen-use-in-wide-screen-displays-a-search-for-better-results/280

If that was done, and the source for Eskuero's Collapsed Mastodon is available for review and adoption, all users could benefit, without the need of using an add-on, and better compatibility with future releases as changes are made.

The Suggestion is on this page. https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/issues/1359

#GlitchSocial #Mastodon #UI #UX #Improvements

#rgxJournal #FediReporter

OP : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104362526801485058

@hansw I have planted a veggie garden here at home this year; have done it in the past, but not when I am on extensive travel, as it requires care.

Went looking for little plants and the garden centers are pretty much bare -- one lady at one told me they had a lot of people who never did this before, now coming to get plants for food growing.

Resulting in unexpected shortage. Still haven't found the swiss chard I wanted. Other plants are in the ground, weather has been good this week.

@hansw @freemo Following. Interested in this, as american laws allow gov to get whatever they want from computer networks and servers.

@hansw @globcoco

I just did a test search, after being so surprised when someone pulled a whole thread out of thin air -- with the words "family tree" only.

OMG -- Full text search? on mastodon that is so freeking rare.

On Pleroma she pulled it off easy.

On a smaller instance, ok. On FAB, where my new account is, the same search got results as far back as 3 weeks.

Amizingly, it showed one of Hans's posts, done here on qoto, seen and indexed, retrieved on FAB easily.

OP : https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/9wBbdqBj7ROgmc6TSK