Gooseus @gooseus@qoto.org

@mssunshine fyi, nitter is a nice alternative to using twitter directly https://nitter.it/WalshFreedom/status/1589255800270487553

@rshamilton Have a follow list of people migrated/migrating over?

"This is a real badge, Elon gave it to me."

credit: https://nitter.it/ProjectLincoln/

@AdamOnLinux If you like programming and Minecraft, have ever played Factorio?

@abde Hello, thanks for the welcome! It's been interesting so far, only been a couple of days, but it def feels more conversational and less like everyone just shouting into the void and bracing for a response.

On complexity, I like to share a book on the Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter -- https://archive.org/details/TheCollapseOfComplexSocieties

His thesis is that civs grow and evolve to become more complex as they need to solve increasingly complex problems, as well as maintaining the solutions to the previous complex problems.

Eventually this reaches the point where new solutions produce diminishing returns given the amount of effort; growth slows and turns into stagnation as the previous solutions aren't maintained (infrastructure, rule of law) and the civ begins to unravel until an external event that was manageable before, breaks the whole system (war, cataclysm, etc).

When it comes to computer science, I find the questions of computabiity and complexity as it relates to how the ability to compute scales with their size of the input(s) ... this relates to the first interest in collapse because I think of civilization itself as a computational system underneath all the shouting, laughing, fighting, eating, sleeping, and sex.

Tell me more about numerical simulations! I was in a PhD program for a minute before COVID kinda blew up my life. I was working on a paper doing categorical analysis of patterns in prime numbers.

@lucifargundam @aut @derickflorian That's an interesting dynamic that I imagine would create a weirdly fragmented network...

I'm also new here and I'm unsure if it's because qoto is a low-key haven for actual phrenologists... or if the blocking servers don't like that qoto standards _could_ allow actual phrenologists a space to peddle their ideas to the impressionable and naive?

I'd be interested in seeing some analysis of the Fediverse and the various servers and server relationships?

@lucifargundam @derickflorian yeah, def seems like there is a lot more to learn and understand in this federated social space.

Any recommendations for quality of life improvement settings or tips/tricks for using features like Groups, Lists, etc. for managing signal/noise?

@trinsec Haha, nope, I'm in the web app, I was just looking at the character counter and making a joke about how long my first post was in comparison to the max post on Twitter.

For someone like me, it's tempting to write walls of text that then take up a whole lot of vertical space in another timeline of someone who might not be interested in reading a 2000 word essay on whatever random topic.

Curious about the other extra features though? Also, how much of the UX is Qoto vs Mastodon?

Hello Mastodon/Qoto hoping there will be some interesting conversations here and less meglomaniacs pretending they're the savior of humanity.

Been doing web development for almost 20 years, currently working with #Typescript / #Javascript, #MongoDB, #Neo4j, #Angular, and #NestJs.

I'm interested in #Philosophy, #Politics, #History, #Complexity, #Physics, and #ComputerScience.

I have thoughts on #collapse and our current moment, but I'm feeling gluttonous at almost 500 chars for my first toot.