🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@Fredwerd I luckily have pretty decent history with mental health. I'm more resilant to a bad environment than most. But even I was finding the constant toxicity of america slowly eroding my sanity and i could feel the fact that if i stayed there for too long it would impact my sanity strongly. So I left and every day im away i feel better

@Fredwerd I have friends struggling with mental health still knee deep in that. Many not doing too well at all. It is very sad.

@Fredwerd Oh my that sounds horrible. I can understand why it might have lead you down the wrong path. I tend to agree most extremists, including racists, are often mentally ill. But I also think the vast majority of America is mentally ill and all that mental illness just feeds off each other and makes more of it.

In a less extreme way I remember seeing that effect from South Silly. People were going to hate me for shit that didnt 100% agree with whatever nonsense they were spouting, and im not one for group think i prefer discourse and difference of opinions. So naturally I stopped caring about being polite with them because, i mean why bother if they are going to hate me anyway, might as well have some fun with it :)

But the most poingenet point you make is how this is all self reinforcing, they more people are at eachothers throats the more each side will move more towards the extreme. ITs a really dangerous downward spiral the USA is on.

@Fredwerd Indeed, the rational minds will be the first to flee when people get irrational

@Fredwerd There are sensitive people everywhere. But I do find it a much easier time to find good respectable informed debate on Qoto than I do on facebook thats for sure :)

Hit me up if you have any questions the Universe is a weird place when you are new :)

Everyone welcome my buddy @Fredwerd he is new to the Fediverse!

#introduction #introductions

@Liberty4Masses The biggest threat America faces is extremism & a lack of respectful discourse. Both act together to prevent us from solving the problems we all face. As important as gun rights are, being able to have respectful dialog again as a nation is far far more critical.

@Liberty4Masses While I support gun rights I'd say your doing more harm for the cause than good by taking that stance in the majority of cases.

@twdockery Through donations, I donated 10,000$ to the fund out of my personal money when I started the QOTO non-profit. That is more than enough to sustain us for several years. But since people continue to donate it will likely sustain us indefinitely.

If you haven't checked out #QOTO yet you should probably check out https://qoto.org and get an account. We have thousands of people on the local server most with extensive STEM backgrounds. It's an active server. But best part is that its not only distributed and decentralized but we also offer a ton of other distributed and compatible services.

Some of the other services we offer for free:

- Host your own website on your own domain with us for free.

- Get a free unlimited GitLab account to host any files or source code you want to share.

- Get a free NextCloud account, also hosted on QOTO. Its like google drive just with actual privacy.

- Many other features coming up this week including: A discourse server to host discussions, Photo hosting, Video hosting, and music hosting. All for free, and all using decentralized and federated technologies.

#QOTO update, we now offer free web-hosting as part of the QOTO network of services. You dont even need to be a member of our MAstodon server (where I am making this post) to use it!

Our Gitlab instance is free for everyone to use for public and open-source projects. We recently enabled the Pages feature.This allows you to upload and host web sites directly from Gitlab. You can even bring your own custom domain, but if you dont have one you will be given a free URL to your page anyway.

As the first pilot test I moved my #Aparapi project over to the gitlab server. It is now hosting the following website: http://Aparapi.com

Please reach out to me if you'd like to use the service and have any questions.

Relevant...

Man these Deep Fakes just keep getting better and better. This time Full House but everyone is Ron Swanson from the Office!

https://youtu.be/jrG-REWdV6A

#DeepFakes #meme #humor #joke #jokes

A #QOTO update for all those using our NextCloud or GitLab services (free for anyone hosting open-source projects). We recently figured out why most of you have had trouble uploading large files to NextCloud or using the CI on GitLab. Turns out our Nginx reverse proxy had a 10M limit on file size.

The issue has since been fixed. If anyone has any continued problems let me know.

#Git #GitLab #NextCloud

@Curator
Love it, followed your other accounts. Keep up the great work.

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