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Cilla is pretty! 💕


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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!
twitter.com/OutwoodsCat/status

Emmabuntüs sur un Pentium 4 à 3Ghz ! C'est Faisable !

Merci à notre ami Clément Lallain pour son bel article sur la mise en œuvre de l'Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 2 sur un Pentium 4 de 2003 ❤️♻️🐧💻👍

blog.lc-numerik.fr/accueil/emm

@toast @mdszy @ashfurrow @bclindner @pganssle

For myself, banning/blocking an entire instance simply because they refuse to take control away from their users and refuse to practice censorship is abhorrent to the very idea of the fediverse. If one really wants the platform making such decisions for their users and wants to be on a platform where users have no choice/voice, then shouldn’t one be over on the birdsite and let them ‘protect’ people from wrongthink?

Alternatively, we could just let users decide for themselves what they do and don’t like. Will this allow some ‘bad’ stuff to get through from time to time? Sure, of course. Is that worth it? To me, yes. I guess it just depends on whether one is actually for freedom and openness or one is just playing lip-service to such concepts and really only want freedom and openness for the Right Sort of People :shrugfelix:

* When you discover your Instance is blocked. *

After creating a new blog post, I prepare text for announcing it. This is posted at my main instance, and later I visit other accounts, search for that Status URL, and boost it from there.

In one case, I could not find the status on that normal search. Odd. What is going on?

A search for my user profile at Qoto did not bring ANY results either. It dawned on me that something was amiss...

On today's web magazine, live at : write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you

Australian Bushfires.

Satellite photo by NASA, shared on Twitter.

Shocking, the extents of these fires!

RT of mastodon.social/@iamabhigyan07

Amazing. Just found this at hatthieves.es/

We got have a copy, so borrowing it. Gracias!

An animation of what a Black Hole might look like. Trippy.

Just discovered, from a Bing search for a book (which they have, in their library).

Web design is pretty hard to read on my laptop, but can be zoomed out for larger text.

The Information Database at the CyberPunk Project

project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/

And see their Library also at :

project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/

@Full_marx an instance owner can set any rules they want and block or ban whoever they want from a technical aspect. The owners also get to decide if they wish to block their entire instance from other entire instances, again technically speaking.

Usually when a user selects an instance they do so with the intention of picking an instance that has rules and moderation policies they personally agree with. Obviously people who join an instance want to know that they will not personally be censored but also protected from others who might harass them or otherwise be unwelcome.

On this instance, QOTO, we do **not** ban people for being right-wing, left-wing, or for holding any particular viewpoints provided they are respectful and curteous to others.

We require users to basically be kind to eachother, the most fundemental rule is to "respect a users right to disengage" In short this means if you make it clear you do not wish to interact with someone they are then obligated to leave you alone, if they dont then action will be taken.

Statements made intending to be explicitly hateful, such as explicitly racist comments, would also be against the rules (as i said, be kind to one another). But again we won't ban based on political views or personal opinions though.

#Wishlist for 2020 ?
@design_RG

I would like to see what this screenshot shows:

A post with RICH text formatting, here in Geoff's post a Quoted block, but GlitchSoc does support full MarkDown tags in Toots text.

Things like Bold, Italicized, Underlined text . Underlined links if desired - and more.

Web Clients that, like Pinafore already (see screenshot) support displaying this RICH formatting. Yes, Pinafore is awesome, thank you Nolan!
Pinafore's homepage is : pinafore.social
GlitchSoc is advanced, cutting edge Mastodon development. See it at : glitch-soc.github.io/docs/
or in person at an instance near you.
Screenshot below shows Geoff's post at Hackers Town -- hackers.town , which runs GlitchSoc.

But, wait - won't this BREAK in other Mastodon instances? Display UGLY formatting marks in line with the text? Nope.

See in a minute a screen shot of This post (pretty, here in GlitchSoc) as shown (Plain Jane) in a normal Masto instance. (kind of a let down, but no damage done)

Just found on hash in Twitter. End of October, less than two and a half months ago. User count, near 3,000.

Currently, over 6,500, and growing.

We are still looking for volunteers and talent to join Staff. A mod based in _Asia_ would be ideal for Time Zone coverage.
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RT @DocFreemo
Seems is getting about 11 new users every day, more or less consistently.

We are growing fast and I think its t…
twitter.com/DocFreemo/status/1

RT @imKarthikDeva
If you are looking to join (You should) and if you are a STEM person (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or at least interested in it. Please consider joining : Question Others to Teach Ourselves instance.

qoto.org/about/more

RT @DocFreemo
I'd like to welcome our new moderator to the fold here at . Everyone please welcome @design_RG

Australia burning, climate change hitting. Thank you for your action, Patrick!
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RT @_CharleeGirl_@twitter.activitypub.actor
This is Patrick Boyle.

Since the fire has passed through Mallacoota this amazing, selfless young guy has been out searching for injured wildlife. This is one of 7 koalas he's saved so far

The world needs more Patrick's ❤️


twitter.com/_CharleeGirl_/stat

New free limited time stamp. Nice design and colours, get yours before January 6.


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RT @slowlyapp
is celebrated 12 days after on 6th January and is the time when Christians remember the Wise Men who visited Jesus. ❞ … Quoted from whychristmas?com

✨Epiphany Celebrations Around the World
🇪🇸🇨🇿🇧🇬🇬🇷🇷🇺🇲🇽🇺🇸
nytimes.com/2018/01/06…
twitter.com/slowlyapp/status/1

Another gem found on fediverse.space.

The Stats for any instance include "Insularity" -- the percentage of all created messages in the instance which are directed to users in the same instance.

I had seen this mentioned, and now confirmed it.

This is what Defederation looks like. Not pretty.

From : fediverse.space/instance/gab.c

Ever thought of Who and How we connect to neighbours?

** Map and Stats from : fediverse.space/instance/qoto.

Visit and zoom in and out for more detail, it's mind boggling. Ctl-+ or Ctl-minus to change map scale.

Larger size to see details: i.postimg.cc/7hgB65ny/Qoto-Con

And I am happy to see I have made a personal connection -- TeDomum.net Write.freely, my blog's home. Is on the map! 😃

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QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
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All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.