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@s8n more precisely, we refuse to censor what content one can access from QOTO. Our own users are held to the rules on our about page, and violating the rules can get your content removed or your account silenced/suspended, so QOTO shouldn't originate any hateful content itself. It's analogous to Postel's Law: "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept".

For the most part this works really well - our content is acceptable to most instances, and our users are generally willing to behave reasonably. There are exceptions - as @oskay mentioned, some server admins can't stand that we even federate with instances that allow content they wouldn't want to see; on the other side, we have removed users who can't bring themselves to follow the rules. But you can't please everyone.

@Biggles so the mastodon default is 500. QOTO runs a modified version of the software with a limit of 65k. However, the app I think you're referring to is published by the official Mastodon team, which takes the position that Mastodon is for *micro*blogging and if you want to write longer posts you should not use Mastodon. They have at other times resisted making changes to the interface to accommodate longer posts, so it wouldn't surprise me if this were a deliberate ideological choice to maintain Mastodon's "purity" as a microblogging platform.

Most interfaces hide everything past the first 500 chars behind a "show more" link or button, as everyone's kind of come around to the idea that longform instances exist and you need to accommodate their toots in a way that doesn't break the interface, even if you don't permit them yourself.

@nadeera many mobile apps allow you to add multiple accounts, so you can maintain a presence on multiple servers. It's not quite "one account" but probably the closest you'll get.

@PawelK there's a dropdown on the menu. Tap the hamburger menu in the top left, then tap the word Youtube with a little triangle next to it. You should get a list of sites you can use.

@js290

@PawelK Newpipe can search and download Youtube, Soundcloud, Peertube, or Bandcamp audio to your device. It's not always MP3 format but might meet your needs

@js290

@Pat simple electrolysis of water produces hydrogen gas; oil might be important for hydrogen as an energy source, but not as an energy storage medium (which is what @bonifartius asked about). If you have cheap electricity and access to water you can make H2 gas in your own country, and there's nothing particularly exotic needed to make an engine that burns it. I would guess that some of the rare elements involved in constructing high-performance electrical components are more burdened with the negative geopolitical effects you describe than hydrogen is.

What car were you referring to, actually? The max range I see in production vehicles is less than half that - a search turns up a few concept vehicles (Alcoa+Phinergy, Aptera, Mercedes) but nothing I could "buy today" that's even close to a thousand miles.

@cnx @ulintl@mstdn.io @CapitalB @iron_bug

@dichotomiker first I've heard of it. @freemo is this by design?

@b6hydra could be, I haven't used it myself. I just saw a blog post recently that the algorithm had been tweaked to give priority to smaller instances, so I inferred there was some process deciding what to recommend. But maybe it's just sort order within the categories?

blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/official-apps-now-available-for-ios-and-android#onboarding

@b6hydra I partly agree, but if you've been on the Fediverse a while, I think your experience of the Fediverse and personal knowledge of your friend probably lets you give a more valuable recommendation than whatever the algorithm spits out.

@Gargron

@cweickhmann you can upload gifs or apngs in your avatar, or attach them to posts. Keep in mind that there is a setting to prevent autoplaying animations, which causes people who enable it to only see the first frame as a static image.

@trinsec fifty new users in the last two hours lol, you bet there'll be a spike

@s8n nah I'm happy to have them, just dealing with a crush of "someone on Poast used a racial slur!" reports right now so I figured a bit of education was in order

Looks like we are getting a lot of former Twitter users today - I hope you enjoy exploring QOTO and the rest of the Fediverse! Our rules are at https://qoto.org/about/more#rules and you will be expected to abide by them. Be aware that our rules are not the same as Twitter's, and other instances on the Fediverse will have different rules that their users are expected to follow.

If you're considering reporting a foreign user (i.e. from an instance other than QOTO), please take a minute to read that instance's rules. There's no point in filing reports over conduct that the foreign instance doesn't prohibit. You can block the user or his whole instance yourself, but QOTO won't intervene except where the offending user is evading your blocks e.g. by setting up alts to contact you.

If you think the user's conduct *does* violate his instance's rules, make sure you tick the little box to forward a copy of the report to the foreign moderators. They might hand down some kind of punishment to him if they agree with you. But in either case, no punishment will come to him from QOTO's team.

I'll do my best to answer questions if you tag me.

@bonifartius H2 gas has a reasonable energy density in J/kg, but since it has such a low density in kg/m³, it has a poor volumetric energy density in J/m³.

Another way to look at this is to say H2's enthalpy of combustion in kg/mol is very low (propane's is about eight times higher), so you need far more moles of hydrogen to store equal amounts of energy. But here you run into the ideal gas law P=ρRT. To get many moles into a reasonable amount of space, we need a high density ρ. R is a physical constant, and so you either need to drop T by refrigerating your storage, or raise P by physically reinforcing it. Both of those options are too heavy to be competitive for mobile applications - even if you don't have to carry around as many kg of fuel, you're losing more than the difference in carrying around the tank to hold it in. For static applications where you can tolerate the weight, there are other cheaper ways (notably, pumped-storage hydro) to store your energy.

@louisrcouture Is there something in Quebec's political system that disfavours broad coalition parties? The list you gave makes the Democrats seem very ideologically diverse, relatively speaking - four of the five parties' first listed equivalent is a Democrat. Similarly, the Conservatives have had everyone from Bernier to MacKay to Sloan to Poilievre challenging for the leadership in the past five years, so it happens elsewhere on both sides of the spectrum. Why not in Quebec?

@louisrcouture That'd be interesting - I don't really have a good sense for how the parties in QC match up with the political spectrum used in English-speaking North America, but it'd be neat to learn more