josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@euklidiadas Pues, de hecho, muy bien, siempre que no te importe que la mayoría de ejemplos sean imágenes de chicas con pechos generosos.

Ahora en serio, es una moda bastante extendida por aquí, y que la mayoría lo use para hacer memes no significa que no aprecien el aspecto artístico y técnico. Te recomiendo tener una mente abierta en este asunto.

@editora @tyndaro

El más grande (en todos los sentidos).

You know what? I'd sooner believe @6502Nerd (even though I have no idea who they are or how they knew she had died) than Wikipedia any day of the week.

I'm seeing a lot of posts about this today, but it's so weird. At some point between October 12 and October 14, I boosted a post that paid homage to her on her recent passing. The weird part is that the post was dated August 22, but Wikipedia says she died on September 29.

I wouldn't want to be him when he discovers that there are potentially unsavory people _everywhere_, not just on Twitter or Mastodon.

@miketheitguy Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma and some forks of Mastodon, like qoto.org do have quote-posts. That's the beauty of the Fediverse: TMTOWTDI.

@seb

@dbergkamp There are several arXiv bots that once a day list all kinds of papers published (during that day, I suppose). Check the Local timeline every night (European time) or just follow them.

As for being a good place for meeting other scientists, I assume it is, but now you have to think in Fediverse terms. That means that your choice of instance is not that important in terms of who is in it. You can meet scientists in other instances, too. For that, you should check the Federated timeline or, much better option, follow (and use) your favourite hashtags.

So, what makes your choice of instance significant? First, its features. For example, qoto has a bigger character limit than other Mastodon instances; it also lets you quote-post and use Markdown and LaTeX in your posts. And it is a free speech instance, which means that we federate with everybody and you curate your own experience (for the most part. We do have rules, of course, but we usually don't need to enforce them).

Anyway, welcome to qoto and the Fediverse.

@trinsec Two things annoy me about the new batch: one is introductory posts, as I already mentioned; and the other, that some of them ask for help in a passive-aggressive way, like: “This does not work like Twitter, hence it must be bad and wrong. But anyway, is there a way to get the result I expect with this shit software whose documentation I didn't bother to read?” (I'm exaggerating, but not by that much.)

Other than that, I'm glad people decided to join and I hope they will stay. Most seem nice.

Also, good job helping the newbies. Thanks for being that person.

I'm going to start filtering introductory posts, because, to be honest, they annoy me.

Listen, if you really want to stay around (which would be awesome, but, let's be real, also unlikely), other people will boost your posts, then I will see them and, if I find them interesting, I will check your bio, which is where you should put all that crap about you.

The fact that you may like the same things I do doesn't make you followable. Only what you post does.

@peterdrake I can see the original post. I just had to scroll down a bit, not even that much.

@sullybiker Exactly. The only reason why they may not already be here is that they didn't know about Fedi yet. That was my particular case.

In the end, it's just a matter of principle, I think. If you share the principles of Fedi, you'll stay; if you don't, or don't care about them, you won't.

@Platinum

@sullybiker Absolutely true.

@Platinum It doesn't really matter. Some people will not be able to adapt, others won't like us or think we're too weird, and only a minority will chill and stay. I was one of these in 2017.

It's like people don't even remember how many waves have come and gone. (I'm talking about both the optimistic and the xenophobic.) The most outrageous example I can remember was that of the lady who wrote the blog post about Mastodon being “like Twitter but without the nazis”. She abandoned her account less than a month later.

The waves are part of Fedi. This one will pass, too. We don't have to do anything. Just enjoy the show while it lasts.

@sullybiker

@sullybiker I mean, that's what's always happened. It's not the first time.

@sullybiker My favourite part is them thinking that there's gonna be a flood of people coming to Fedi when most of them will create an account and softly let it die after a few days, if not hours.

@ink8@the9thcircle.club Sí, eso lo leí hace unos días, pero no es el significado con el que se usa por aquí.

¿Qué demonios es un joseo? Llevo años leyendo esa palabra y jamás he sido capaz de deducir su significado por el contexto. Por mí podríais decir ‘puturrú’ y seguiría en la mismas.

@mangeurdenuage Don't you mean Fagor, by any chance?

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Fagor?lang=en

I have the theory that after shave was invented by women so that we would never forget how much it hurts to be beautiful.

@coolboymew Is the anime really that bright or is it just the pictures?