🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

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@freemo + others - I thought I'd write you just to keep in touch and also to bring some considerations - some is 'why it doesn't work' here but not all totally related to QOTO but maybe if learning without action is happening this is not ideal / too limited as acronym might infer / try for in question / teaching and more...

So perhaps some considerations to why I think it should be more (which depends if you are working towards freedom) or can simply see all ways are my way and yours if we are to get to something better all round. Or do you not want that? (also good to ask).

I think I'm lucky enough to have an admin that cares (yourself) but who knows how prepared we are to take it to X level which I think we need so it's not just writing and occasionally boosting...

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So here's the list starting with █ for each (these are measurables, in no order but all important to me which I'd appreciate reply):

█- Leadership to involve us all on QOTO - I think you need something, at least podcast or shaping future together somehow measurably to act against / for things freedom-loving or however it's framed...

█- You wanted to do some audio between us but only live talk (which my internet speed can't do) so would have helped me to do a offline audio ping pong which is also good for pre-meditated themes and editing. This is not a really bad thing but stopped the audio happening clearly because I'm currently using minimal system + enjoying low-cost modem-speed internet which can't do too much live. So re-consider this at least as a test since you were ok with live which is fairly the same once we're rolling and do 5min audio ping pongs.

█- I'm not sure of your aims...
I thought I was

█- See you're getting in to AI is a big flag for me (and danger in general) and while I like / trust you - too clever friends will obviously land friends possibly in trouble or there is a fear there in who I perceive to help (even if it's before helping or if you 'don't really need me').

So I'm going for freedom which I see as enabled by all those that include themselves... and well I don't know if I should try include or label you in freedom but who knows if this server will help me get there basically... so I've had feelings of leaving (again just saying but hope you can say something) and right now I'm not sure what there is for me...

█- Maintenance mode on QOTO for a long time has perhaps magnified these comment BUT perhaps that is a good thing as plodding along is also not good and need more response / participation / heat back from those going for / searching for same/similar things, which I question as users and eventually admin leading / not leading them (though I appreciate the free being here being a chore but not having will at least for me is just limited for me).

Maintenance seems to be going on and for extended times then you've said and continues.

█-Mastodon can't import back in another profile (so we're locked in) unless a tool exist to make posts in another form... which I'm kind of finding people that can help partially on that... but no import to another Mastodon is bad (maybe offline self-instance or 1 user instance might work to copy outbox.JSON file)

█- Threads / Meta and all that is basically also part of my consideration so not just QOTO or directed at you... because I think we need a ANTI-Meta invasion mechanism or way because whatever we do can be flipped in their favour in the end (such as taking over / scraping too easily without us writing disclaimers or legal footers asking them not to at least).

█❓█ So one question is if you can add ANTI-Meta disclaimer to interface saying:

"USERS DO NOT CONSENT TO SCRAPING DATA BY ANYONE UNLESS USERS MENTION IT'S WANTED IN THEIR PROFILE"

FREEMO + PEOPLE, LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF POINTS, THANKS

@QOTO / #QOTO INCLUDED HERE TO DISTRIBUTE WEIGHT OF TOPICS AND REPLY WITH OTHERS SO IT'S NOT JUST FREEMO (but if it is just freemo then this might prove my point he's alone / limited in endeavours I'm looking at)

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P.S - NOT TO DISTRACT - BUT

=====> A similar video/audio version of my text is with the link below, to do with building things and refers to revolution or change a lot, is here which is very similar to what I'm saying about participation and structure even without 'my' levels of revolution but something for all of us on QOTO more than just posting/boosting mostly:

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=VVAA0wIqM0w

If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

#ASD #Autism #ADHD #ADD #Neurodivergent

"To sustain this level of blind support for #Israel, the U.S. must erode its own #democracy. And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now." https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=460a87f4f5-Week+in+Review%3A+Sat.+4%2F27%2F24+w%2F+fundraiser&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-32ccf17a11-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

@freemo didn't want to play down the usefulness! :) i only think all people have special traits or talents which help them to perform especially well on some tasks or in some environments. imho that's why humans were so successful settling in wildly different places :)

Which form of pronouns will you use when asked?

@freemo it mostly comes down to the circumstances they live in. What they do, what their local communities expect.

Consider something more clear-cut and outside of mental health: myopia, near-sightedness. A condition with which one's eyes have a much closer focal range, meaning they see things worse from afar, but also better up close. Not just as close as people without it — even closer. Meaning that with a comparable retina a myopic can clearly discern much finer details. Kind of a superpower, right? If they do lots of work on a tiny scale it would seem like it.

And yet, street signs, menu posters in restaurants, numbers on the public transport and tons of other things are *a lot* harder to see, to the point of them being entirely nonfunctional, which reflects on the user – forcing unto them alternatives or aids (glasses, smartphones and their cameras, other people) through difficulties integrating into society.

Different lifestyles have different compositions of these components.