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

* 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

Wasn't me only, Todon.nl shows some downtime earlier at fediverse.network.

Their stats show it online, although not for me yet.
Nice to have these tools.

https://fediverse.network/todon.nl/checks

Hola amigos de España, hán visto que teniemos algunas opciones de Crossposters para tracer conteúdo desde Twitter y hacia Mastodon?

Hay várias, para nosotros ahí en Qoto.org recomendaria una llamada Moa -- https://moa.party

Gratuito, solo tienes que elegir algunas opciones y tus posts en twitter puedan aparecir ahi. Con todo el texto, imagines y un enlace al original.

Muy bueno, lo uso yo mismo.

* Puente Moa está a https://moa.party

* o veas la traducion a español ahi : https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=en&to=es&dl=en&ref=trb&a=https://moa.party/

[ captura de pantalla traducida al Español, gracias a Bing Translator ]

#YoMigroAMastodon #crosspost #Espana se cambia a Mastodon

#Fediverse -- Some people will come and see what is going on here if it keeps growing and getting media reports.

I only joined here in November -- close to 2 months now, but in that short time I went from total newbie to having 3,400 posts or so, Staff position at my main instance, and being part of maybe 10 instances of Mastodon alone.

Plus the wonderful integrated services - love Write.freely!

Insta, I stayed away, always. Dumb people, hashtag binging, bothers me, they are clueless.

Curiously -- I found my curiosity and interest in this Fediverse due to a BBC news report about the Indian Diaspora, from TW to mastodon instances.

Saw it on my rarely visited TW timeline, read the article. Uhm, what is mastodon?

LOL, the rest is #history.... 😜

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-50343054

https://todon.nl is not responding, bummer.

Me, mid way thru and interesting convo. 😞

"No Pasarán!" (they shall not Pass!), a nice photograph, appears to be Madrid, Spain during the 1936 Civil War conflict.

A period not well known in general, but important as it marked the preliminary struggle against Fascism, which evolved into full blown World Wide struggle during WWII period.

Image Posted at Todon as part of a thread : https://todon.nl/@asllibvallcarca/103425562843622309

#Spain #CivilWar #Espana #Fascism #Fascismo #History #Historia #WWII

Ange posted a nice review of possible Mastodon Clients under Linux, as usual a well written and illustrated piece.

Merci, Ange! Le originel est ici : https://tugaleres.com/2019/03/23/clients-pc-pour-mastodon/

Or, in a quick Web Translation to English : https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=fr&to=en&dl=en&ref=trb&a=https%3A%2F%2Ftugaleres.com%2F2019%2F03%2F23%2Fclients-pc-pour-mastodon%2F

@angedestenebres, well done.

More info on the Book?

https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/cult-of-the-dead-cow-how-the-original-hacking-supergroup-might-just-save-the-world.html

https://www.ft.com/content/5250f866-cfe3-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781541762381

Wiki Reference on Group's History : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

And it's nice to see that the TechnicolorRainbow group is alive and well -- it's the home for the Book club at Hackers.Town instance.

One book a month, to be read by anyone interested, and can be discussed via the @TechnicolorRainbow Group. Neat.

January 2020 Book of the Month is : "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World" by Joseph Menn.

RT of : https://hackers.town/@ryen/103372347108203901

** See an Explanation of what Guppe Groups is, how it works, how to sign up; illustrated. Here at our Discourse Forum (a copy of my original posts at HT).

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/technicolorrainbow-a-proposal-for-a-user-group-mailing-list/183

#Fediverse #Book #scifi #cyberpunk #tech

Ant then, people post some beautiful images with their posts, and you are glad to have caught a glimpse.

Gravure, a shipwreck at sea, lots of fine detail : https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/023/470/383/original/f0c54845b473d716.jpg

OP: https://mastodon.social/@maelig/103419462852721913

Ooopsie. 😐🙄

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #xp
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RT @gayocats
1214868366771
https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1212677418864955392

#art, love #cyberpunk theme #illustration. Great work, sad moment. Sec Forces hitting #hacker hideout. #xp
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RT @AheadLooms
Raiding Hacker Hideout, Maik Beiersdorf https://buff.ly/2FjQswT
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1212825899688701952

Caught by surprise. Oops.

#cats #catsofMastodon #mastocats #meow #xp
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RT @TheHardyBoyCats@twitter.activitypub.actor
New year, new pose 🤩😂 #GlamourModelCatsOfTwitter
https://twitter.com/TheHardyBoyCats/status/1212806199273500676

We have all seen the nice B&W photo of a female soldier posted here, so I won't post again (I like the photo and her, after finding out who she was and what she did)

Lyudmila was a snipper in the Red Army, at a time when it looked like her country was going to be taken over by a determined invading army. She fought them bravely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

* Special hashtag to highlight serious posting ? *

Received an interesting suggestion via Direct Message, it said :

"What do you think about: Starting a hashtag like : "qotoarticle" and all users who publish journalism-like or good pieces from the Net using this #, to make it possible finding an interesting collection of *qoto-news*, without all the fun-stuff burying it?"

This is a nice idea -- and I am opening a Forum discussion thread for it.

My thoughts on the matter, on today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting

* Want some good music without paying for online streaming services? *

Local music works well; or if you are lucky and there's an interesting radio station you like.

Consider some of the Themed, Genre specific stations. Many out there, most freely accessible.

I work away at the computer here, listening to WNED Classical, they transmit in FM and also broadcast via internet. https://www.wned.org/radio/wned-classical-945/

If you like Jazz, there is a good station in Toronto, Canada, although they have some annoying commercial to keep the lights on, supposed to be a non profit so less ads than usual, and good music.

https://jazz.fm/

Special hashtag to highlight serious posting at Qoto.org?

I received an interesting suggestion via Direct Message, my correspondant has this suggestion :

> What do you think about: Starting a hashtag like : "qotoarticle" and all qoto-users who publish like journalism or good pieces from the internet shall use this # to make it possible to find an interesting collection of qoto-news, without all the fun-stuff?

This is a nice idea -- and I am opening a Discussion Forum thread to chat about it.

** Forum thread is now LIVE at https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org/180 **

Why there, not here? A few reasons:

* we won't be posting all kinds of tag ideas with hashes that will go live, and maybe never used again.
* it's open to anyone who wants to read it, as I will add thread URL here, and it's publicly readable to all.
* it's open to replies, all you need is a quick registration, confirm the email, and presto, you are in.

So all good, isn't it?

Consider it done, my friend, and here are some of my hash suggestions.

* They need to be easy, short if possible.
* easy to spell so both posters and searchers can use the tag for their own means.
* unique, so they will collect the intended posts and no strain content.

Which do I think could work? Uhmmm... Brainstorming, put ideas out and don't judge them. Add more ideas. Decide later, evaluation time.

Maybe : qoto-news . qoto-journal . qoto-daily . qoto-top . qoto-stem . qoto-hq .

or : stem-news . stem-hq . stem-daily . stem-mvp .

Do they have to include the "qoto" word and brand ID? not necessarily, we are just considering ideas here.

* If including, they might get people to pay attention to our instance in general.
* It could be used by others, in fact any hash tag can be overwhelmed and spammed, unfortunately;
* not much defense from that other than blocking the twits who did it.

There, the ball is at play, let's hear what you all think?

Thank you for considering and participating.

#STEM #science #math #Engineering #Math news are of interest to people all over the #Fediverse

Forum thread is now LIVE at https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org/180

As soon as I saw this graph on an instance I just joined (the Pilgrim spirit is strong on me, Luke), I thought about Dr Freeman's mentioning missing good people to talk #math with. 😄

Ingo runs some great services - both:

* a mastodon instance at https://nerdculture.de

* and a much more rare Friendica instance at https://nerdica.net/

I am not sure, but I think he might be the operator offering the brilliant idea of a TRY Friendica instance; where people can creat an account and see what it is like, for a short period.

Accounts are removed after a week, and I did use it, posted a few things, then got membership into Nerdica.de for the long haul.

Try Friendica is at : https://tryfriendica.de/#

** Mastodon SHOULD probably have something like it! **

Thank you, Ingo! @ij