🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@nullifidian

I appreciate the desire to donate. For those who insist i cann pass along donations details. But truth be told ive donated tens of thousands to QOTO and we are more than ok on money for years to come. If you want to help out just be active, contribute, and find ways to help.

@gpowerf

@gpowerf You are welcome. It has beenn a pleasure having you so far.

@LouisIngenthron Sorry this seems to have slipped past me and I didnt reply (missed it).... No there is no plan to do that. I find it to be a funny little quirk of the network and dont see a huge need for it honestly. I am more than happy to open a public discussion about it and if the community wants to see that change I will do it though.

@LouisIngenthron This issue has been a long time battle on the fediverse, and not an easy one... Luckily very few servers are still an issue... I hope one day they come to their senses but eh, it is what it is.

@JoshuaACasey Agreed, especially when the system makes it so easy for individuals to block. You onnly need to block servers not people and you address mostly all bad actors.. so a dozen or two blocks and an individual is good. There is no NEED for a master block list forced upon them because the block lists are so manageable.

Moreover users can just import the blocklist as a CSV, so it literally takes a few seconds.

@Real_Edwin Yes, they are words, very good!

@pandian I agree with this entirely.

@rastinza We have seen a slow but steady increase in new users. So yea, i have no doubt we will continue to grow into the future.

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin

@JoshuaACasey Awesome!

@JoshuaACasey Ahhh I see, that makes sense... Im not sure of any other solutions off hand than the ones Imentioned... You could try using a non-web based UI like an android app or even a desktop app if one exists.

@cwebber@octodon.social

You go! Shake that booty :)

I wont be following, just wanted to cheer you on and pass on some words of encouragement. Have fun!

@cwebber__afterdark

@JoshuaACasey I see... generally people dont have need to have 2 accounts on the same instance so I never ran into that. Out of curiosity why do you want two accounts on QOTO (I have no objection to it)

Weird... where did the QOTO tickers disappear to all of a sudden....

@JoshuaACasey

two different accounts on the same instance (for that you can use private browser tabs). Or seperate instances? For that you can just use two seperate but normal browser tabs.

@ProstasiaInc

@dimi yea it was taking a toll on the other servers. luckily QOTO has a pretty beefy server.

@worldsendless correct

@worldsendless they see the whole post in tact