Set MarkDown as your Default Toot Format ?

• There is a place in Settings where you CAN lock in this preference.
• It will NOT do any harm - plain Text still looks normal.
• And if you use any MarkDown, it will be processed and rendered properly.

See the screenshot below for the location of this - a one time switch and done. Same as in Glitch-Social instances.

#MarkDown is rich and makes much nicer posts when wanted… 😃 ❣️

#Qoto new features.

A bit of #introduction on my first toot ever. I'm an software engineer from Spain, specially fond of discussions, teaching and learning (three things that can be done at the same time). I'm specially interested on #programming , #boardgames and #music .
Hope to have fun here and post something from time to time.

QOTO New Features Guide

Since we have so many new significant features deployed as of last night I wanted to take a minute and give a brief explanation of the features and how to use them, as well as how we expect them to evolve over the next few weeks as I continue to work on them.

The following is a brief summary of most of the new features added:

• Groups Rendering - Accounts which represent groups (such as those from Guppe) are now tagged with a group badge and are specially rendered so the messages relayed by a group appear to be originating from the user.

• Group Directory - Groups are federated in the group directory which, like the federated timeline, will list all groups followed by anyone on our server.

• Markdown Posts - You now have the option to select markdown formatting when posting.

• Circles - You can now create circles with followers in it. When you make a post you can select one or more circles to privately post to and only users of those circles can see your post.

• Colored follow button - The follow button seen in the feed and in profiles (the one that can be optionally turned off in settings) will now be colored to indicate follower status. Gray if not followed, yellow if followed, blue if following, green if mutual follow

• Read/unread notifications - Unread notifications now have a subtle blue indicator. There is also a “mark all as red” button added.

• User Post Notification - Users now have a bell next to their name where the follow button is. This will send you a notification every time they makes a new post.

• Rich-text rendering - We now render rich-text from other servers, so servers which post in a formatting that includes things like bolding, quotes, headers, italics, underlines, etc, will render in the statuses.

• Rich-text Stripping - The user option to partially or fully turn off the rendering of rich-text.

• Registration Captcha - A captcha is now required to signup for a new account, reducing spam.

• Local-only toot default - You can now optionally set all toots to be local-only and prevent all your posts from federating outside of the local server. Without this setting you can still select local-only on a per-toot basis.

• Quote feature turn-off - As introduced earlier you can quote a toot rather than just reboost it. This is an additional button on every toot. This can now be turned off in your settings and removes the button.

• Bookmark feature turn-off - As with the quote feature we could previously bookmark posts. You can now turn off the bookmark button.

• Follow button turn-off - As mentioned earlier our added feature allowing you to add a follow button, optionally colored, into the feed can now be turned off.

• Subscribe button turn-off - As before the subscribe feature that lets you watch a users public toots without following them can now be optionally turned off.

• Favorite Domains - Our last release allowed us to add remote timeline as a feature where you could pull up the local timeline of a remote instance as its own column. Now you can also add domains to a favorite domain list which makes it easier to access and bring up the timelines by listing them directly in the navigation panel.

• Favorite Tags - Similar to favorite domains this allows you to create a list of your favorite tags and have them easily accessible in the navigation panel.

Notes

Markdown

The engine used to render the markdown is called Kramdown. It supports standard markdown, of course, but it also supports some special formatting. You can view some of its formatting rules here: https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html

Keep in mind that while many other fediverse serves will view the rich text not all servers can or will and the formatting will be converted into html in a best-effort to remain compatible. For examples vanilla Mastodon instances reject all special formatting, but links from markdown should still be correctly rendered, but bold and other formatting will be filtered out on Mastodon. Pleorma and other software which allows rich-text should properly render the markdown.

Groups

Right now all of the support on QOTO around groups is centered around the group directories and rendering groups. You can not create a group on the QOTO server itself, but you can follow and share to groups and have a better experience. As it stands right now groups on the diverse are unmoderated and open. Anyone can join a group and participate, gup.pe which are open groups. The directory basically lists any groups known to the QOTO server, so if anyone follows a group on the server that group will show in the group directory.

With that said we will be releasing shortly a specially coded QOTO group server. It will behave similar to the way Gup.pe behaves in the sense that group is still an account that relays posts to that group by mentioning the group account. However it will allow for managed groups where the group is owned by an individual and thus a person can block people from the group. That should be up very shortly so keep an eye out for that announcement. It should allow QOTO to participate in moderated groups as is.

#QOTO #Fediverse #Mastodon #Mastoadmin

Forgot to mention we also added read notifications to the notifications stream. Unread notifications have a blue marker next to them indicating they are unread and there is a check mark at the top of the column one can click to mark all notifications as read.

New Version of QOTO Released

The latest version of QOTO is now live on our server. There are a few minor bugs noticed when we deployed it that will be worked on over the next day, but otherwise everything should be up.

Here is a quick breakdown of some of the new features:

• Groups support for federated groups. QOTO will display a group batch on group accounts and properly render the relayed messaged. We also added a group directory showing any groups any of our users follow. We will be bringing up a seperate server soon as well dedicated to groups and allow for user moderated groups as well.

• Markdown support for toots.

• Circles allows you to add people to a circle and then when you make a post you can share specifically to one or more circles and only they can see your posts.

• Captcha Required when registering a new account, should help us eliminate some bots.

• Rich-text rendering. Rich text from servers that provide formatted messages will now be rendered with the formatting (bold, underline, coloring, etc).

• Rich-text filtering a new setting introduced to allow users to partially or fully suppress rich-text formatting.

• Colored follow button The follow button can now optionally be colored from the settings to provide additional information (gray if not followed, yellow if followed, blue if following, green if mutual follow)

NOTE: This was a pretty big change, so there will likely be a few bugs we flush out over the next few days. Everything seems to be working for the most part but there is one bug in streaming we identified after release. The consequence seems to be that when you make a post you wont see your own post in the local timeline until you refresh the page. It appears the streaming of other peoples posts is still working. I’ll be looking into the bugs and fixing them over the next day. If anyone runs into any bugs or issues please let @freemo know and he will address it right away.

#QOTO #Mastodon #Mastoadmin #Fediverse

Attention!

#QOTO servers will be upgrading shortly with all new features. There may be some short down time. Stay tuned!

Hi!!
I'm using Mastodon for the 1st time, finally I landed!
It took me some time, the signup process... It's hard to grasp but here I am, I heard well about all of this ^^
Before I've been in other decentralized communities, i.e. Minds, ZeroMe, Steem, decentralized video platforms like BitTube, Dtube..

Hopefully happy to be here too : )

@freemo I also have been using more traditional todo systems, but this week they have really been tearing at their seams and I am taking the plunge to move it over to org-mode. Along the way I discovered quite an interesting video about literate devops, it may be of some interest to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg

It's my turn to thank our #mastoadmin for everything in #QOTO !
I wasn't into social media when I joined the fediverse, but now I seriously feel most other platforms are... primal.

What I like particularly in QOTO:
- Freedom of speech
- Transparency in practice in decision making
- A Discourse forum that compliments mastodon the way orange compliments chocolate
- No fediblock pillowfights

Thank you @freemo !

Also, thank you awesome #mods ! The welcoming atmosphere you create keeps the community healthy and cozy.

3d6 is not less swingy than d20 #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #statistics #gaming https://sgryphon.wordpress.com/2020/10/15/3d6-is-not-less-swingy-than-d20/