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

@freemo @raining_night Thank you, that was quick! 😃

@raining_night Ok, will do, maybe add the RN in your profile where it says Name (mine shows Rob G.).

Regarding changing the user handle, I don't know - and it's a good question. Would be useful if possible.

We could ask the boss, @freemo

@raining_night you are welcome. I wanted to make another complimentary post here, but accidentaly posted it as a new topic, oops. It's here:

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103132093623500329

If you Favourite an item with the Star, you have a better chance to find it in the future.

Currently, it's like a "Like" button on many cases, since we don't have one, but the original idea was a Favourites or Bookmark.

Found another nice page for reference. You might be able to get some explanations for the general operation of the network and instances, etc.

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

"In my last few posts I talked a bit about Pleroma. Since then, we had a lot of questions about what Pleroma is, how it is different from GNU Social and Mastodon, why you should use it and so on. This post will be an introduction to Pleroma, so read on if you are interested.

What is Pleroma?

Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support the same federation standards (OStatus and ActivityPub). What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but still exchange messages with people on larger servers. Pleroma will federate with all servers that implement either OStatus or ActivityPub, like GNU Social, Friendica, Hubzilla and Mastodon."

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com Ah, ok, thank you.

@raining_night Nicely done. 😄

Welcome. Do we call you Raining Night, or maybe RN for short?

I am using the same handle I did on birdsite, but kind of regret not taking advantage of a short nick that can be easily grabbed here.

Might help when people want to post and include you with an @ sign.

@raining_night Pleroma home site : https://pleroma.social/

and a list of sites using the platform:

http://distsn.org/pleroma-instances.html

@raining_night That is a good question. 😃

But I am afraid the answer is not "mastodonians', because mastodon is just one of the possible ways to access the 'fediverse' (or Federated Universe, the network we are participating in).

There are sites using "Pleroma". There are other names which I am even less familiar with. But your posts will show there, as we will see theirs too, being "federated" with hundred of other places.

The great community would be Fediverse, so maybe a word built into that root?

Fediversians comes to mind, although you will need to quickly explain what that means and why you chose the word.

@shibaprasad Awesome. I love their policy of keeping things real, selling great product and not milking the customer like the major companies are doing with $1000 'flagship' models.

Very popular in Europe too, where it's hard to find physical stock on the stores as they sell so quickly.

Not for sale in North America, but very popular in Europe, Brazil, China, India and other markets.

High quality, well built, decent price and great support.

New version of MIUI 11, got a notification this morning and it completed unattended and successfully. 😊👍

❤️ Xiao MI!! https://mi.com/uk/index.html

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com Wait - there's some way of editing a post once it's done?

Haven't found a way yet, moon.

@Jastej @freemo @Surasanji @arteteco @admin You are welcome.

I agree, the site is stable and well run, as well as having clearly stated policies and attentive staff.

Your post is also helpful in opening up the question, and now showing possible solutions.

We have had great conversations this morning already, quite on topic and great for learning new things.

@raining_night The really surprising thing for me was @Surasanji mention this morning, that there ARE different sized infinities.

That was unexpected, and I am not understanding why, or how it's justifiable. Mind blowing. 😃

@raining_night Thank you!

@togs you are welcome, hope you like it.

@I_Will_Wobble
Yes, Brazil is once again in a hard times, crisis situation. A recession since 2014, and it hasn't really improved since. Around 12% unemployment, official number, probably an underestimate.

I was born there, and follow things from a distance. Gave up on the country many years ago, when things were very bad and dispiriting. Like many, I searched a way out, luckily it worked.

I notice something similar on what happened in Bolivia and Brazil, although I don't follow the news for Bolivia closely.

In Brazil's case, there was a left wing government in power, a party that started underground, clandestine and illegal in 1980 or so. By 1989, they had a candidate, legal party status and participated in the first presidential election since 1964 and the Military took over government.

Flash forward to 2003, and the Workers Party elected the president. He was in power for two terms, and things looked good in the country when I visited.

But there was corruption on the background, the party was getting huge amounts of money for its coffers, from public works and specially the national oil company (Billions of dollars in this case, used in hidden election funding in 2014 elections run).

That government BURNED the left with many, many people, leading to a protest vote that brought the current, unprepared, populist president. 😞

The party has not accepted their mistakes, and I consider that a big let down to anyone on the left spectrum.

Mr. Morales, apparently tampering with a national election after 14 years in power, legally elected, is also a huge mistake and betrayal.

@freemo @Surasanji @Jastej @arteteco @admin I recalled having making a post with a screenshot, showing Jastej how to Mute an account, or even block a whole instance/domain from his feed.

Found it - and it's worth looking at. I have used this myself to block a domain I object to.

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103126578015443222

*Some infinities are bigger than others*
There are two types of infinity, and it doesn’t stop there.

"Few numbers have exercised more fascination, and confusion, than infinity. I can remember asking my father at a young age whether space went on forever. He replied that this must be so because, however far you travelled into space, you could always stretch out your arm into a void beyond.

Same thing with time: will it go on for all eternity, and does it stretch back infinitely far into the past?

Philosophers and scientists have wrestled with these questions throughout the ages, but for most of that time ‘infinity’ as a concept was not well-defined. "