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

@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx An automated search program, assuming you mean looking at website contents for indexing, would be called a crawler, most likely. Or a spider, going about the web.

@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx Take a look at Wikipedia, their Bot (Computing Technology) has quite a few variants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot#Computing_and_technology

@realcaseyrollins @DissidentKitty@radical.town Yeah, and on Christmas eve to boot. Someone had a rough night, maybe.

@realcaseyrollins Yes, that's true. Many places have degrees of restrictions for new accounts. Some are by invite only.

We are not a General instance, imo; the theme gets diluted if we go that way. Easier to keep focus on a smaller place, but this is an open one, and the spot at the top of the list gives a lot of exposure.

I selected my first instance from that page, Qoto, but not by default -- I liked the theme and focus, and chose it for that reason.

@realcaseyrollins Oh, Geez, and that's after we deleted a bunch of spam accounts earlier this week.

About 50 created in maybe 10 minutes or so. Bot action from NJ, US.

We passed 5,000 maybe two weeks ago, almost 6,000 now. Sadly many of those never post much.

@realcaseyrollins @DissidentKitty@radical.town The Grinch Came this morning... 😜

3 large Instances now at the top of the JoinMastodon.org suggestions list.

I am glad, that there are other larger instances, helping accommodate new users joining #fediverse

👍 Bida.im is suprising me, didn't realize they had those numbers. Congrats!

https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started

New user? need a Guide?

There's a good one here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

@Massick Lechón coming up, eh?

@LennartMathiassen @georgia Test result, Georgia?

@Massick Hey, Massick! Where is the Cuban Crew? lol... CL being missing.

@shibaprasad Wonderful, thank you, Shibaprasad!

Happy Holidays.... 😺

@freemo @realcaseyrollins@civiq.social It's been a busy morning, Casey -- I found that thread just by accidentally spotting one of the replies on the Home feeds.

Followed it, and this person has opened an attack calling for De-Federation of our instance. with a one line piece of text and a snapshot of one of our pages.

Thread was posted last night and got a surprising number of Boosts. I responded in the thread until @DissidentKitty@radical.town blocked me apparently.

Feels like this was all done on a mobile, immature prank, but still she means it, it seems.

Made a topi here earlier : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103363357923380440

...with link to hers which is pinned at the top of her profile.

@crackurbones Posting a map here so people can see, the page tried to block it -- and we need to zoom in.

Jpeg version of same file, smaller byte size, same Rez.

@freemo LOL, thank you. 😜

@freemo Well, I haven't been in Fediverse for long at all, calendar wise - month and a half. But most of this time I have put in double shift hours, and learned a lot about the network, the way things operate, etc.

I still find it annoying that someone could come out and lay such a poor thread, and get support from their buddies.

No loss for me if I don't see their instance, I wouldn't be attracted to it, but to allow an attack on ours to go unanswered is not my way of doing things.

@wookieemark

Me, rehearsing for holidays :

@freemo I loved it too!!

Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society would sure approve. 👍

@requrious@mastodon.social

Neat, man. Start an attack on someone and not expect a response.

Or, block their response, as that doesn't matter to you.

Tells a lot about you, yeah. Not interested either, bye.

@DissidentKitty@radical.town

And on Christmas Eve, we get into a fight with someone with a mobile phone, some weird ideas and time to drum up and attack our instance.

Kind of neat the title being bandied there now, STEM Lords, for our staff here at QOTO.

LOL, thanks DK. 😜

Happy Holidays to you too.

@kashi They spent a lot of time on hand copying books. Not only the text, which was laboriously copied in difficult script, but all the illuminations added at the margins and capitals like this one. Works of art, expensive and fragile, glad we still have many of them today.