🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @freemo@video.qoto.org I'll sign up & upload my geometry making videos here, the instance I used originally has been down for a while now.

Who here would fid a WriteFreely or PixelFed instance useful?

We are trying to decide which other federated servers to host on #QOTO and would love to hear from people on their opinions.

@freemo me when someone is dead in a movie: 😑

me when a dog is dead in movie: 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

Aleph released the proof-of-concept implementation: https://gitlab.com/alephledger/proof-of-concept ! I helped writing it, so this is a bit of a brag.

Transaction validation time was ~6s with 256 machines all around the world, so pretty nice. Since then, we have been working on a proper implementation in Go (this one I am even more involved in), but it'll take a while before it's published.

#cryptocurrency #alephzero

@whirli@mstdn.io
I live in the Netherlands and the USA (I have homes in both). I have used the healthcare from various countries at various times. In my experience all healthcare is an absolute failure. The netherlands has some of the shortest wait times in all socialized health care and despite this the waits are still atrocious even when someone is in agonizing pain (as I was).

I've also seen america move from non-universal to universal healthcare (admittedly an exceptionally shitty implementation of it). The quality of healthcare plummeted as a result (which is why I had to flee the country partly).

As I recognized existing systems are failures I looked as to why. The capitalist system of a completely free market fails because supply and demand doesnt work with health. A person will give up every material pocession they own for a 1% chance at living 1 more day. The demand is infinite and in such a system free market demands simply don't work as they might normally in other markets. So I can recognize free market isnt a solution.

Similarly irecognize single-payer form of universal healthcare fails for a similar reason. You can't fix the supply and demand problem by eliminating the supply side. This prevents the natural competition and selection of alternatives that cause a system to naturally improve over time.

So to me the solution is co-op because it gives us both sides of the problem in one. On the one side it ensures a free-market pressure as people still buy into the insurance they choose and can pick and choose what options they want. It also fixes the infinite demand problem by eliminating profit. In a co-op the people who buy the insurance are also the owners of the company. So they make any profit out of the system. So there is no exploitation based on greed.

Solves all the issues.

@youknowitstrue@gab.com

#QOTO update

QOTO now offers a Funkwhale service for free to all QOTO members. It can be found here: https://audio.qoto.org

Funkwhale is a federated technology using ActivityPub. This means you can follow people's audio library just like you would follow someone on QOTO. Get an account, upload some audio, and share it with anyone in the fediverse.

Funkwhale is part of a series of federated services QOTO has been bringing up lately for its user base with the intention of facilitating collaboration and announcements around STEM based projects. Here are a few of the other services we have:

PeerTube instance for sharing videos with the fediverse: https://video.qoto.org

NextCloud instance for general file storage like google drive but federated: https://cloud.qoto.org

GitLab instance for hosting git based source code repositories as well as hosting static websites including the option to bring your own custom domain: https://git.qoto.org

Discourse instance a mailing list, forum, and Q&A server: https://discourse.qoto.org

And of course our Mastodon server where this toot is posted: https://qoto.org

#fediverse #ActivityPub