@freemo Please confirm that Quey has a back-up strategy to ensure that users don't lose everything in case of an emergency or shutting down. -- see §2 https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
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It is important for users to
have the confidence that a
trip over the power cable or
a rogue bit flip will not erase
all of their data. Having a
backup strategy is a basic
necessity of providing a
public service
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Humblr did disappear this month. We don't know what happened, but the result is very much like the explicit circumstances contemplated in §2 -- an event "erase[d] all of [our] data."
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More significant is the fact that Humblr's relationships vanished without notice
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Humblr was a social media site; and this means that Humblr was about more than just an archive of images and words.
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Humblr was about people and the links between us which were forged slowly over time.
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If Mastodon is about "taking back control of your social media", then it means asking reasonable questions based on the Mastodon Covenant.
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QOTO is also a social media site, so these issues are timely and appropriate and prudent
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Reasonable questions about QOTO need clear and reasonable responses.
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?
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@chikara Why are you asking me to confirm things about other servers I do not run? you need to ask the owners of those servers.
@freemo I've only asked you about this Mastodon instance.
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I was shocked when a spokesman refused to confirm that there is a Mastodon.social commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down.
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With all due respect, this means that a core element of the Mastodon Covenant is not credible. This means that everyone who read and relied on the specifics of the Covenant were wrong to do so.
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That's a big problem.
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Although @LuigiEsq@mastodon.social spoke on behalf of another instance, he was claiming to speak on behalf of the core organizers of the Mastodon network.
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This astonishing admission opens the door to corollary issues which I have now raised with with you.
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With regret, I see that you haven't responded to my explicit inquiries about §2 and §3 of the Mastodon Covenant. Please set my mind at ease with your reply.
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Reasonable questions about QOTO need clear responses.
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?
I can tell you that QOTO is in compliance with the covenant. You asked about other instances, not about QOTO. I can not speak on their behalf.
@LuigiEsq@mastodon.social
@freemo Your profile volunteers information about your birth -- that you were born in Philadelphia in the United States. This data makes it reasonable to infer that you have high level of fluency in English.
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I draw your attention to this because it suggests I would not be wrong to seek -- and find -- a high level of precision in your use of English.
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As you know, I asked three very specific questions and I explained a little bit about the context which caused me to seek more data about QOTO. Your response isn't exactly what I'd asked, but it's your answer. Thank you.
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You state: "QOTO is in compliance with the covenant." -- see "Mastodon Covenant" https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
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Your choice of words begs three questions:
(a) What is the Mastodon Covenant? and
(b) What does "compliance with the covenant" mean? and
(c) What are the consequences of our pointed question and answer exchange?
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Again, thank you. Your evasive response forced me to parse the issues more fully that I had done before.
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You wrote, "I can tell you that ..." and this phrase implies that there is something else you're not telling me and others. In other words, your choice of words is revealing. You're bluntly announcing that you've made a decision to be not clear, not straightforward, not helpful.
This disappointing choice of words begs two question:
(a) Why?
(b) What else?
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Again, thank you. This isn't what I'd expected, not what I wanted; but our exchange does demonstrate the usefulness of questioning others to teach ourselves.
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?
