🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

I just realized something very powerful.....

I am sitting here, in my office, at a company I own a large chunk of, running the entire company, all because I made the discovery of a lifetime that will change the entire face of medicine int he next few years, save millions if not billions of lives, and about to go public on the stock exchange... everything suggests I havent just made the scientific discovery of a lifetime, saved the world (hopefully), but will probably be a billionaire in the next few years at this rate....

Yet here I am letting a few vile twerps on a small social media network get under my skin and hurt me... fuck them, they could only hope to do a fraction of the good I'm doing. All they want to do is lie, hurt, and tare down good people to make their own pathetic egos feel like it has some value...

I think im good, they only mattered because I let them.

WOW! Im suprised at the generosity everyone. I mentioned in a reply thread a way to donate to QOTO, didnt even make a public announcement about it, and already people are donating 3 figures a pop. Extremely generous. Thank you all of you! I feel like if we are going to take donations we should post some means of thanking those that donate and are ok with the recognition.

Ok I finally fixed the broken server for the QOTO services we run (like nextcloud)( and migrated it to a new server... everything should be up and working. Nextcloud is currently upgrading and will be online in a few minutes.

If anyone has any problems let me know.

@trinsec @khird

So i tried posting an ad on twitter for QOTO just for shits and giggles and see what sort of conversion we get... Astonishingly we have a 11% engagement rate... that is absolutely unheard of in advertising. Normally its <1%... Not sure if ill continue advertising or not but it was an interesting experience to say the least.

#twitter

I wish my amazing and loving girlfriend didnt live so far away... I could use her cuddles tonight :(

Just in case anyone is curious it costs me a little over $1,200 a month to run QOTO and all its services.

#QOTO

3am and working on the QWOTO servers backend... jesus christ it never ends

@Pantangelini

I didnt say it was precedence... a supreme court judge cited it as an example of what would not be protected speech. But sinc eit wasnt challenged in court it is not, strictly speaking, precedence... that said, based on what precedence does existt, it is almost certain that it would be deemed non-protected speech should it ever reach court.

@Romaq

I am considering adding the following phrasing to QOTO's ToC.. Before I do I'd like some feedback from the community

> While QOTO aims to provide a community where our users do not fear being punished for their personal opinions, that does not mean we allow people to disseminate ideologies that are abusive or violent towards others. Demonstrating support for or defending ideologies known to be violent or hateful is a bannable offense. This includes, but is not limited to: racial supremacy, anti-LGBTQ or anti-cis-gender/anti-straight, pro-genocide, child abuse or child pornography, etc. While we allow questions and conversation regarding these topics in general, doing so in bad faith will result in immediate expulsion.

@trinsec @khird #QOTO

I have just changed the ToC for #QOTO.. We replaced the phrase "free speech" With the more appropriate principle of "Academic Freedom". We also changed some subtle wording to be more explicit.

In practice our rules have not changed in any meaningful way. I may make some more tweaks soon.

@khird @trinsec