josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

Guapo hilo:

Another bad advice to newbies I'm seeing much too often is to crosspost to Twitter.

If you're going to do that, it will hurt your Fedi engagement, because it's very easy to notice it (e.g., non-clickable mentions, not answering to replies, etc.) and comes out as not being fully commited. The implication is that you're only here to sell us your crap and if you had to choose, you'd keep your Twitter account and leave, which is fine. As fine as it is to unfollow you, which is what I'm going to do right now.

¿Estoy de guasa? ¿Hablo en serio? _You be the judge_.

Es gracioso porque los holandeses son unos hijos de puta.

This kind of people is why dictatorships exist: “Voting is so hard. Can I have just one option?”

I think I just realised why, in every wave, most people leave in a few days. It is because a majority of them are lurkers, even on Twitter, so they expect to come here and read instead of interacting with us and creating new conversations. If they can't find their favourite topic, they will dismiss us as just ‘programmers’ and ‘tech people’ and go away.

Take my advice: we're not one-dimensional beings that only know about, or are interested in, one field. We just might not talk about, I don't know, architecture if we're not prompted, so why don't you start that conversation yourself? Why don't you publish some pictures you'd like to discuss? We appreciate beauty and intelligent conversation. We're human beings.

Existing Mastodon users (I don't consider qoto to be Mastodon: qoto is Mastodon without the stupid) are also responsible for this behaviour, because a lot of them are pro-censorship, and, thus, do their worst to keep a significant part of Fedi invisible to newcomers, so that they're reduced to a tiny echo chamber instead of being free to explore the whole thing. “No, don't go there. It's full of bad people! And if someone looks at you funny, tell your admin immediately, so they go nuclear on their instance. Don't try to mute or block them yourself. That's not the Mastodon way!”

Worst advice ever. Curate your own experiencie here. Don't assume that just because you dislike something, everybody else will or must. That's the very definition of censorship.

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.

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.

¿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.

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

Please welcome Stefania. She's a great journalist.

Using Slackware. Debian is trash.

Stupid typos. At least I noticed it when I wrote: “Those who don't lack at my jobs”. I'm not on autocorrect. I really typed that. If anyone wonders why I take so long to reply, there you have it. It and the fact that whenever I post something, I immediately forget about it and go do something else.

I don't like people who lack a sense of humour, and by that I don't mean: “Those who don't laught at my jokes”, but: “Those who can't even distinguish between a joke and a serious statement, especially when they claim to appreciate humour themselves”.

Aprovecho para contaros mi sistema particular: nombres de comunidades autónomas, provincias y capitales, en castellano. Todo lo demás, el topónimo oficial.

Ejemplos: Gerona en vez de Girona, Xixona en vez de Jijona, Santurtzi en vez de Santurce, Comunidad Valenciana en vez de Comunitat Valenciana.