🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

For all those who feel this would be a bad idea; it would be really helpful if you spoke up and expressed why you feel it might be a bad idea. The reasons it might be a good idea are obvious but the reasons it might be a bad idea are less obvious. As such it would be really helpful for moving the conversation forward.

Would you like to see ArXiv and other non-commercial STEM-specific bots brought back online here at #QOTO.

It has been offline for some time but I still have the scripts to bring it online. You can see an example of the type of content it used to post here:

https://qoto.org/web/accounts/8917

'.. writing software that is easy for others to use on a wide range of data takes much more effort than software that works only for you. “The difference is at least as large as between the polished paper published in Nature and the first stack of slides for a lab meeting with the underlying results,”'
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

I had an idea I wanted to run by the #QOTO community. Not sure if I love it or hate it personally so could really use some feedback.

We have several services here that can be very expensive in terms of storage costs, things like NextCloud, FunkWhale, PeerTube, are quickly getting to the terrabyte range.

Right now we give a small but generous quota for free on all our servers. Usually enough to play with, 1 - 10 gigs as a starting point. We have more than enough funding for many years into the future to be able to give several people much higher quotas, even a terrabyte a person would be doable if it werent too many users.

Problem is if we just open it up to the public and give everyone a high quota it wouldn't take long before the costs would be overwhelming. Especially considering that many of those users wont be contributing to the QOTO community and may just use the space for personal storage only. Thats fine, but we need a better way to figure out who to give a higher quota, some way to earn it.

Obviously QOTO is a non-profit so charging users is out of the question. So we need a better way. I had an idea to make it reward based.

Basically QOTO reward people if they have been on the server and active for a certain amount of time. Create "tiers" based on how long an account was registered and how many posts they have made as qualifications for each tier.

Also no need for it to be limited to qoto mastodon either. We can actually use the the user trust-levels on discourse (which are calculated automatically based on post history) as another measure. Each Discourse trust level gets you a new tier of quota allowances.

This should reward QOTO engagers and content creators to create meaningful content and give us a way to ration out our server resources.

@tjemni I use Discord to speak to Specific People that I game with online, so it's more real-time chat between people I actually know for my use case. These are people I roleplay with via TelNet servers/Mush/Mux/Mu* worlds.

Before Mastodon I was never active on Facebook, or twitter- despite having accounts. I still have a FB account that is specifically to receive pictures of my niece and nephew from my sister. I don't use it for anything else.

I sometimes look at forums, and am a member of some small forums- but all of that feels less toxic than what I've gotten the last two weeks on Mastodon. I'm seeing some of the dark-side of social media, and I really don't like it.

It's as ugly as any other kind of hate I've experienced, and it comes from so many directions. It's really very confusing to me- I don't understand how so many people are so angry that they lash out at anyone who talks to them that isn't part of their 'social bubble'.

I'm not about to lash out at anyone, but I'll probably be less interested in posting in other communities going forward. #QOTO is good for me. I like the people here and I like the conversations I've had, regardless of opinions. We've got a mostly good crowd here, imho.

@bhupatiranga you may also try the #qoto instance of Mastodon. qoto.org (question others, teach others) is devoted to question asking and answering.

Cool people there. But very few Indians.

@vaibhavgupta @vanihba1993

This #roadmap for the #telegram #wallet and the #gram #currency and the #ton #network is a bit outdated, isn't it? Will that ever #launch? Or is it #doomed anyway, because it's all #blockchain?

The #QOTO #Discourse server now has full support for **both** MathJax based rendering for Latex formatted Math equations and Latex formatted Pseudocode. In fact you can even render math latex inside your pseudocode!

Check out the following post to see an example along with some quick instructions on how to use the new functionality.

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/rendering-pseudocode/45

#Programming #Algorithms #discourse #science #ComputerEngineering #CS #ComputerScience

We just fixed Latex Math based rendering on the #QOTO discourse server ( https://discourse.qoto.org )

You can now insert Latex based math into your posts on Discourse in the same way you can on the QOTO mastodon server!

This is the last major bug we have observed across all the new QOTO services we brought up this month. We will keep an eye on things but everything appears fully functional now!

#IntroduceYourself

My name is Thunderwing Matrix. Not my real name, obviously; taken from the Transformers Decepticon character Thunderwing, especially the Marvel Comics version where he is one of the few Transformers that can directly wield the power of the Creation Matrix, the life force of the Transformers' creator, Primus.

I work in payment processing, My mom lives with me & I take care of her. I live in Las Vegas, NV and have watched the city grow and change over about 40 years, for better and for worse. I rarely gamble but do some sightseeing on the Strip on a semi-regular basis.

I used to watch pro wrestling frequently, but now only occasionally pay attention to it. I don't consider myself conservative, liberal or libertarian politically as my views don't fit neatly into any one of these 3 imaginary boxes. I am a Christian, though think some parts of the Bible should be taken metaphorically instead of literally, like the story of God's creation of the world. I hope Qoto for many years!

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