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

* Write.freely blog - a guide for new users *

@angedestenebres made a nice and illustrated guide for new users of Write.freely blogs, but it's all in French.

Goal is to help people interested in using the write.freely instance at TeDomum.net — which has been my blog's home. This morning I took some time and translated her guide to English.

Now the page is on my blog: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/write-freely-wiki-documentation

[ Repost of Release announcement, December 2019. ]

#WriteFreely #Blogs #NewUsers #Writers #Tools #QotoJournal worthy

And... The Formatting that MarkDown allows at Better Software Instances... Coming to Qoto, according to scuttle butt.

OP at Muensterland, as seen in Pinafore client. Nice, and look at all those Links. NO naked URL ones anywhere.

Clean, sharp. I can call that a MicroBlog and not be lying,.

I really find it lovely how the Crossposters allow us to send and receive interesting info, across networks even.

See the rest --> https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104315131340845381

I think some people already Know about the very useful OCR Scanning bot that we have here in Fediverse.

IO have used it, many times, and it's so handy -- all you need is :

* to have an image with text you wanted scanned.
* to send a message -- BEST of ALL , a Direct Message so you keep it private.
* to the neat @OCRbot

Wait a minute or so, and your Notifications will Show a Reply from it. With the scanned text.

Output is quite good, usually only needs to remove extraneous Line Breaks -- so text flows naturally as intended.

Watch this topic for the response coming directly to it.

REMINDER -- much more Civil to use it via DM, unlike someone at another instance (not naming) who abused this, daily, on the Local Feed line.

Reason to create a Filter in my account there, actually. Get rid of the noise.

Thanks to the creators of OCRBot at fedi.lynnesbian.space

Image text is a screen cap of : https://snap.as/matt/iceland/teBUqQ2

#QotoJournal #Reference materials #NewUsers #OCR #Writers #Tools

Willow, a lovely Calico. Hungry atm.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #xp
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RT @fluffy_willow
no work, am hungy. #TongueOutTuesday #TuesdayThoughts #CalicoCrew #CatsOfTwitter #Ambassacats
https://twitter.com/fluffy_willow/status/1270336803346710529

Lovely #Art #cyberpunk #future #scifi #dxp #xp
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RT @AheadLooms
Space Princess//Vol1, Jeremie Feldman https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6am2Jx
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1270355120904187906

“May the Road Rise Up to Meet You,” an Irish blessing often used as a prayer, has travelled throughout the centuries by musical composition, word of mouth, and even a popular cross-stitch pattern.

OP : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104314586544666002

* Mastodon Feature Suggestion and Request *

Putting this out quick and dirty, from the Toot Editor and without nice formatting but it's important and maybe someone can help or take interest on it?

[[ OP at https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104314541426220429 ]]

- Proposal :

a. To add a new setting that allows people to create a post which will Collapse the text body (similar to what a CW does)

b. While keeping the post attached Image(s) VISIBLE.

- Rationale :

c. This is intended for presentation, visual purposes. For those of us who produce Long Form content, and yet would like to have a more compact displayed Toot in the Feed lines.

d. The poster considering this would select the C.W. style warning text line as an Article Title (similar to newspaper or magazine headlines)

e. And select with care a good, related, catchy image to pass some of the content idea and attract a reader into the folded write up.

- Benefits :

f. A more compact Toot, taking less visual space, vertically, while still beign able to communicate with users via Title and an exposed image..

g. How is this different from the current CW feature? The Image is NEVER shown in a CW post, so all that can catch and bring in a reader is the TITLE itself.

- Experience :

h. I have done this in the past, liked the visual it produced, but not the lack of readers, as shown by the low interaction.

i. due to that, while I had show and recommended this practice (Long Post being always wrapped in CW), I gave it up soon, based on experienced results (item h).

Example : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103308319503976935

Hermes the Tabby just lost his human companion, who adopted him out of a stray cat life, and now passed away.

Hope you find a new home soon, friend. Good luck and bless you.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #dxp #xp
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RT @Hermes08574403
@Number10cat @TreasuryMog @DiploMog I lost my foster mum Toffee today after a long battle against kidney disease. She invited me into her home 10 years ago when I was a homeless stray and s…
https://twitter.com/Hermes08574403/status/1270109483042209794

** To all the nice people who follow my account at Qoto.org : **

I have started building up and using a new account at Muensterland.social, a new instance for me, which is the home for all my Blog Publishing from now on.

Details ? here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/muensterland-social-a-new-instance-joined

If you are interested in what I post here -- be i the #cats photos, the Fediverse reporting, my opinions, #Tech news and commentary, etc, I would suggest you consider following this, my sister account : @rgx@muensterland.social

I am a Staff member here at Qoto, and don't plan to change that - but for my personal Writing content, I see this diversion as a needed move.

And it's already working as I expected, thankfully. Soon I will write a new #FediReport page detailing and explaining my reasoning - and I look forward to publishing it.

Thank you for your attention and support in my personal journey.

** Or even find me also on Twitter -- https://twitter.com/design_RG
[ a growing account and part of the Feline Lovers crowd so powerful there. ]

#mastocats #CatsOfMastodon #Fediverse #newusers #QotoJournal for reference

WA/FL has stunning, beautiful #cyberpunk #art and I recommend a Follow and visit. #fediverse friends, take note, on of the good things to be found on twitter. #xp
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RT @AheadLooms
Cyber City: Rainy Days, Ed Rogers https://buff.ly/3drIyi3
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1270317289599107073

Yes it Does!

Sometimes I get a good chuckle while checking emails. My Mod account has a filter and all the New Member applications go neatly into a special Folder.

And there I found this. 😜 ❤️

..and a better view? #markdown #love

...produced the official Release post : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104311348636711720

I won't even copy it here in full as the formatting will be mangled by mastodon, argh.

But this is what it looks like if you open that link in Pinafore, or on a Glitch or Pleroma instance. Try it. ❤️

* Superb new Themes in a GlitchSocial instance *

Just finished the Blog post for today.

I made a quick draft at the Discourse Forum, linked in a previous post.

That was most of the writing, and I made new screenshots in dual sizes for the blog; 640 p wide for normal, and a click on version at 1200 p wide.

It's quite pretty, I think, and a tribute to a dedicated fellow Fediverse enthusiast, who puts many hours and currency every month to keep his instance online.

Today's Blog post : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/superb-new-themes-in-a-glitchsocial-instance

And while I am a total newbie and will have to learn a lot, I am so proud to have made my first comment in a Git Hub issue. Yey!! 😺

At Write.as git : https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/pull/319#issuecomment-640919028

** Thread Hijacking, it's a Thing.. **

> Thread hijacking is when a user is replying to a thread on the forums asking a different question to the original question or suggestion on the first post of that thread.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thread%20Hijacking

https://michellebrauer.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/five-rules-of-facebook-etiquette-part-1-thread-hijacking/

#Qoto #QotoJournal #Netiquette

...And I just had the pleasure of Approving 6 new incoming user applications.

People who saw our Questionnaire at the Front Door, and provided Proper Responses! What a Thrill.

Honest, not trying to be Ironic -- most of the new applications are Reject outright since :

* there's zero input from their side.
* there's irrelevant small talk
* worse there's a sample of their intended Viagra advert stub, URLs and all.

Not kidding, so finding Human responses, with appropriate answers makes my day.

Welcome to you - and I hope you enjoy our instance and the Fediverse.

I would love to post a screenshot, as it's a special view, but not doing for privacy reasons. You are all in, new Friends.

#Qoto #QotoJournal #NewUsers #STEM #Welcome mat.

@emuz

And the post can look So Much Better with #MarkDown formatting love added.

Screenshot below. Post created via Pinafore client, at my new Glitch Social account :

https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104309670273838764