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

@maison_faim Hi, Maison, just back on shift. Morning, doing the rounds, seeing replies to reply to.

And you, how are things?

@pschwede @Lyudmila Ah, that makes sense. 👍

Lyudmila can out fire most people, lol. Congratulaciones, Lyud!

@darwish Bladerunner?

2001.

And many others.

@crackurbones That is a very nice design, had seen it yesterday around somewhere. Their instance seems a nice place to be too.

@Yann @rgx
Your reply shows here stripped of it's formatting (which I can see at Hackers Town, since GlitchSoc supports it).

Man, I had seen people making jokes about using a cat designed platform (Pleroma) versus a dead elephant species one, and they got some good points.

Seems rather Fossilized here when we can't get an instance admin to make an edit in their configuration -- to allow mroe than the dumb 500 characters Toot size limit.

Never mind Text Formatting. And other niceties that Pleroma seems to offer.

@pschwede @missnatalie That result completely baffled me, lol.. 😃

@mandlebro @freemo Ah, thank you for the clarification! 😉

One of 4 screencaptures in a post I just enjoyed reading, showing the impact of the Spanish users migration to Mastodon, just before the New Year.

Here, the user numbers and posts count for Mastodon.social in the end of December.

RT from https://mastodon.social/@ilich/103397049212895023

Return to School, yeah. Drag.

One for @realcaseyrollins

#cats #mastocats #BlackCats #CatsOfMastodon #xp
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RT @CatDisapproval
Back to school blues.
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1214164482768982017

Cilla is pretty! 💕

#cats #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @OutwoodsCat@twitter.activitypub.actor
Teachers were back at school today. I welcomed them back in my usual sedate, professional manner. They were powerless to resist! #CatsOfTwitter #cats #backtoschool
https://twitter.com/OutwoodsCat/status/1214245626218733568

@freemo @mandlebro I would suggest the writer's talent is with numbers and concepts, not clearly with words.

Sadly, as someone who wants to communicate his thoughts, and specially on a teaching text, should do better.

I remember a dreadful Calculus book, by Moise, which I hated, absolutely.

@peterdrake Here in Mastodon? Not too bad, size wise, although I would prefer a Serif font, Georgia, myself.

13 pixels font, it seems.

@pschwede @missnatalie

Congrats, Miss Natalie.

pschwede, please explain. You algorithm revision? post has 1 reply, 1 Fave, etc. I can't fathom how algo selected it.

@realcaseyrollins FM is great, listening to great music here right now, via Airwaves.

But not Rush, ever. Talking people I already don't like, his kind of people, for me is torture.

On the Senate trial, what's the hold up? I am not even paying attention, as the outcome is pretty certain.

@realcaseyrollins That's priority one, so focus on it, and enjoy some relaxing time here when you can.

Specially wit hthe huge tuition costs in the US, can't risk distractions and a bad result even on one credit. Good luck with the studies, Casey. 👍

@Leftover @isolategab
Not being an American citizen or resident, I do have some qualms when the "free speech" flag is waved in discussions or to justify things.

I believe civility comes before anyone's right to speak whatever they want, this seems to be a common view in many international communities.

Personally, I have no interest in the gab and peripheral instances; indeed block them on my personal account, because I can't see any advantage or progress coming from confrontations with extreme views on the right.

I was disappointed to see a Tech themed instance act in this, for me arbitrary manner. Problems can be dealt with, and if needed, a whole instance could be blocked by an admin.

The M.T. action was not a result of any problem though - but as mentioned in a thread posted here earlier by Paul (who used to be a user there, questioned their ban on Qoto, left and joined us), the action there came at the request of one user, according to his own admission in the thread.

I can understand your desire to de-platform them (gab and company).

There was an interesting article I read about the impact of Gab appropriating Mastodon as a platform (to circumvent their proprietary client software being de-listed in the two major App Stores). Gargron wasn't particularly happy about it. Neither were the Bravo browser developers when Gab grabbed their code and 'forked' into their own version.

All of this will likely merge into another blog reflection for me, as I read and enjoyed these various pieces in the media.

@namark I recalled now -- that I found this photo and was impressed by it, it had just been posted at ms.social, and I copied it and the op link to bridge over here.

No replies to it at that time, and I got into many other things afterwards. Good that you brought this in. 👍