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

@Simplyswapy great post, thank you. Got to read the book.

@freemo That's indeed interesting. A quarter of the Earth's diameter, but the volume is so drastically smaller. Noticed from the numbers that you can also infer conclusions about the Moon's inner structure - a lower average density compared to Earth's. No heavy iron inner core there, like Earth's, which gives us residual heat, magnetic field and more.

@_lunawinters yes, for sure. It's turning into a war theatre, with armies of ignorant trolls attacking and wearing out opposing people. Some of these have no qualms about decency, their aim is to harass opposing views. Very wearing to engage such folks.

@requiem That's an excellent article, thanks for posting the link!

@Sphinx I think in most cases keeping a low profile is a good idea - once information is posted in a social network, it's mostly out of your control. Some places can be pretty strange, there are users in mastodon also who I would rather not interact with (radicalized, opinionated) Just read some posts in the "Federated" feed that are just like the stuff that poisoned twitter. But this server seems civil and polite.

@rimachatur Hello, and welcome to QOTO. 😃

@gopinath you got it now, it's verified. Congrats!

@Sphinx @Warhorse Cold here too, about freezing mark and grey skies. 😔

@Whatif You can use a search to find topics and people, that should bring results from a wider area.

I did one for the #Slowly tag which I follow on the birdsite, and it gave me some results, from all over.

@Warhorse depends on the time zone, here it's afternoon and not sleepy yet. 😃

@gopinath Welcome to QOTO and Mastodon, Gopinath.

The software is very similar in usage to twitter, you can post updates, any interesting links to other places, videos, photos, etc. You can follow users with interesting content, and Boost one of their posts if you like it (same as retweet),

There's no Like button, but the Star button is Favourite, which does the same thing.

The main difference of this whole network is that its not under control of one company or administrator - different servers are run by different people, some have certain themes, this one is more science, math and engineering oriented.

You can read posts made here under the "Local"tab, or the larger stream of posts from many other places under the "Federated" tab.

A post made here will spread, and you might get responses from people in any of the other "instances" (separate servers).

Have fun and enjoy.

@ragnar #!/bin/bash
echo "Hello Ragnar"

@freemo Here in Canada the usual reference is to "South Asian" people. There's also "South East Asian" for the region previously called Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, etc). Asia is a huge area, tremendous spread North to South as well - Siberia to Sri Lanka all are part of.