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

NEW pages coming soon to this Fediverse Reporter blog.

Watch for an announcement. I will be using my new Kawen.space account excusively for it, as I am tired of my account here not reaching places due to fediblocks and shitty politics.

I am beyond that, and a free thinking author and publisher. As such, I had been reflecting and thinking about the impact of those facts of life on my personal content.

Of we go, new seas to be explored.

"Navegar é Preciso, viver não é Preciso." -- Fernando Pessoa.

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Navegadores antigos tinham uma frase gloriosa:
"Navegar é preciso; viver não é preciso".

Quero para mim o espírito desta frase,
transformada a forma para a casar como eu sou:

Viver não é necessário; o que é necessário é criar.
Não conto gozar a minha vida; nem em gozá-la penso.
Só quero torná-la grande,
ainda que para isso tenha de ser o meu corpo
e a (minha alma) a lenha desse fogo.

Só quero torná-la de toda a humanidade;
ainda que para isso tenha de a perder como minha.
Cada vez mais assim penso.

Cada vez mais ponho da essência anímica do meu sangue
o propósito impessoal de engrandecer a pátria e contribuir
para a evolução da humanidade.

É a forma que em mim tomou o misticismo da nossa Raça.

Fernando Pessoa.

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English Translation :

Ancient navigators had a glorious phrase:
"Navigating is needed; living is not necessary".

I want for myself the spirit of this sentence,
transformed the way to marry her as I am:

Living is not necessary; what is needed is to create.
I don't count on enjoying my life; i don't even think about it.
I just want to make it big,
even if for that it has to be my body
and (my soul) the firewood of this fire.

I just want to make it all humanity;
even if i have to lose it as mine.
More and more like this I think.

I increasingly put the anymic essence of my blood
the impersonal purpose of magnifying the homeland and contributing
for the evolution of humanity.

It is the way in which the mysticism of our Race has taken in me.

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Poet extraordinaire.

My personal Blog announcements soon moving to a new account and home.

Tired of Blocking and people not seeing posts, due to them.

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/

Plus -- #MarkDown formatting is supported at my new Pleroma account.

@rgx

@rgx And the Themes.......

Dark Theme Pleroma Style.

This looks nice...

https://fediverse.network/kawen.space

A number of Pleroma instances are perceived as a bit 'Shaddy' and that can be a problem.

Looking at the Pleroma instances list and this one seems a nice one. Visiting soon.

https://kawen.space/

@rgx is up and running. Thank you.

And a snippet from a DM reply for backgrounder.
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There is so much History there that I have no idea.

I think I will certainly move my blog work elsewhere, currently thinking about the better place to do it.

And those that know my public persona here are not surprised when I report on Good Instances, or suggest features to enrich Fediverse.

[[ This Topic Now Moved to a Blog post platform ]]

And Here is another Proof that Instances DO Matter.

Same post as above, lightly touched with #MarkDown goodness. At a GlitchSocial instance, not a mastodon one which is still stuck in 500 character toot limit and other quirks of the project leaders preference.

Screenshot, judge for yourself. Does it matter? does it look better, worse?

See the original : https://hackers.town/@rgx/104269224319762428

It is an Option, and currently only people in leading edge Fedi can see this natively. A major flag and issue for me, as you might notice? #writers love #clarity and this helps. #focus , #design, better #UI and #UX is on these other projects -- GS and Pleroma at the moment, that I know off.

There might be others; Friendica is intriguingly RICH in features, text formatting there is a non-issue. As is Editing a post. Not for ex-twitter people, apparently.

* Is it Important, which Instance you are in ? *

Once again I had an enjoyable conversation, earlier today. Achso was there, and we continued a conversation from a day before. We discussed different things, and specially how choosing an instance to fit your needs and preferences is important.

My thoughts on the matter, and a detailed list of some instances I frequent.

On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

[ a repost of my original Jan 4, 2020 Blog post announcement -- relevant on this day where I am mentioning other instances worth of consideration and instance listing sites.

More is better. Less is Twitter, FB. Don't need or want that

Tom Rinaldo is the admin and force behind Kafuka.me -- https://kafuka.me/@emuz

@emuz Nice work. Success to you and the instance. Curiosity -- what's the story about the "kafuka" name?

Interesting bit to watch. Gab head techies considering saying screw-it to Fediverse content.

That could improve the climate in the rest of the Fediverse, avoid nastiness by association like some instances suffer (not by supporting Gab, but simply by defending open network connection unless there's a reason for limiting or denying it)

a post by @isolategab

@freemo @arteteco @realcaseyrollins

A nice feature set.

And a modern GlitchSocial instance has added features compared to the vanillla Mastodon ones.

Rich Text -- Markdown and BBcode, is built right in. I love that. Heads up for what looks like an interesting place for an account.

https://kafuka.me/about

#instance #suggestion #Markdown #GlitchSocial

A more recent Issue posted at the project's Git, included a proposal for Quote Block -- which is part of what others already have, and do a lot for Forum discussions, for example.

"When responding to a toot, allow to put context (quote/reply) #13876"

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/13876

From this topic, ThibG linked to the older discussion (lively topic, link in the above toot). Screenshot of this older topic included here.

Just found a lively discussion. Although dated from April 2019, this is indeed being discussed at the top levels of Mastodon project.

A long topic, including the lead developer's resistance to the request for support (WITH Code included) of Rich Text options (#MarkDown and others, as already supported in GlitchSocial, Pleroma and other #Fediverse platforms).

Eugen is not for it (or we would already have it). But there IS a yearning for more than the Sh1tty plain text. From people who write toots longer than the one liners favoured by old time ex-Twitter heads.

Discussion at : https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10629

Saving this as a place marker, for later reading deeper into it.

#Mastodon needs Better text formatting options. Get on with the times, will we?

Example image included in topic - https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/384364/56579570-ce48ef00-65d0-11e9-9a53-a67c47537d4e.png

Take some Equity first.

https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351