Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
@jengommerman I don't have a Twitter and haven't used any myself. The one I most often see discussed is Moa Party.
@realcaseyrollins I always thought it was meant to be a phobia in the sense of repulsion, not fear. Like how engineers apply hydrophobic or oleophobic coatings to surfaces to repel water or oil respectively.
@realcaseyrollins the Vanier Cup (national championship) in two weeks will be broadcast on CBC, which is free. Sometimes you need a Canadian VPN to access their streaming service, but I don't think there's an American rights holder for this event so my guess is that CBC won't geofence it.
@realcaseyrollins good on you for the integrity! There's a paid service but I don't know that I'd recommend that at this point - maybe if you liked it and wanted to subscribe for a season or something.
@realcaseyrollins It's Canadian football (three downs, wider field, *much* better punting rules). The main carrier is TVA but you can usually find a bootleg stream if you poke around
@jengommerman you can of course run a crossposter for your account only, but I don't think the main QOTO timeline will ever be accessible wholesale from Twitter.
@realcaseyrollins Dunno if this would appeal but the USports playoffs are ongoing. This week (Loney Bowl, Yates Cup, Dunsmore Cup, Hardy Cup) is wrapping up by now but there's still a quarter to go with Laval over Montreal 17-14, so that might still be interesting. Next Saturday are the Uteck and Mitchell Bowls, Vanier Cup the week following.
@shadowsonawall You can do that, but Pixelfed is generally more tailored to this kind of use case. It's still on the Fediverse, so Mastodon users can boost and like your images.
@freemo Yes. I'll give that a try.
@freemo I included his tag in the first couple messages of the thread, but no response. I think the outage may be bidirectional in which case he can't even see it if I try to talk to him directly.
@freemo sure, this absolutely isn't a priority - just something I was hoping we might fix.
A similar issue occurred a couple years ago - it was eventually resolved, but I can't find any documentation of how that happened :/ The thread is at https://qoto.org/@khird/104552087436106659 - note that it's not quite the same thing, as refollowing doesn't work this time around.
@freemo Okay, sure - I actually thought you were the admin! I'm trying to establish what's going on by talking to a user who runs a bot on that instance but has his main account on a third-party server. Might be a bit because having someone act as go-between like this is typically slow.
The reason I don't think it's a block is that I can go to https://interfaith.masto.host/@bahaibot, get the URL of any post from that account, search it on QOTO, and it gets added to our local copy of the bot's profile. This is different from an instance like Scholar that's actually blocked us, because searching a specific Scholar post by URL returns no result unless QOTO's already aware of it from being boosted by a third-party instance that doesn't block us.
Now that's not to say that the problem is necessarily on our end, but I figured it's worth a shot. Maybe not if it's too much on the admin's plate though.
@freemo looking through the documentation I see it's possible to refresh a server's view of another. Could you try running `tootctl accounts refresh --domain interfaith.masto.host` as described [here](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#accounts-refresh) in case the problem's on our end?
@tetrislife they're normally 20 bytes, per below source. So 40 characters [20 bytes * (2 characters / 1 byte)] in the normal hexadecimal encoding. If you encode them in Base32 you need only 32 characters [20 bytes * (8 characters / 5 bytes)] and it's an alphanumeric case-insensitive encoding. Still not short, but at least an improvement.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/32087/how-to-generate-fingerprint-for-pgp-public-key
Klye
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Read this one the other day and it makes me think a lot about online interactions:
"O Son of Dust!
Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most negligent is he that disputeth idly and seeketh to advance himself over his brother. Say: O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning."
www.bahai.org/r/646280975
Klye
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I meant to share this earlier, #Mastodon peeps, you can mute words on #Mastodon too; if you're tired of hearing slurs and they're coming from too many instances, you can use the mute words feature. (I personally recommend not doing this, and either muting instances that seem to have racist folks and no bad apples, or just muting bad actors because racist folks won't always use slurs all the time, and hiding the posts with the slurs can make them hard to find. I mute racist folks after seeing them use slurs but hey that's just how I use the platform, you do you!)
@dragfyre I'm about to start Book Three myself :)
@ceoln check his instance rules, and if he's violating those, report him and check the box to forward a report to his server admins. If not, just block the user or his whole domain.
Klye
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By the way, if you are starting up your own fediverse server, it may be tempting to blindly copy someone else's block list, but some corners of the fediverse have been a bit over eager with full instance bans, in my opinion, which tends to break the whole federation model (imagine if you couldn't email anyone with a certain university's email domain because your email provider disagrees with the university policies).
If an instance is putting a lot of irritating stuff in your server's global timeline, it might be better to just mute them from the global timeline.
@albertcardona It's a deliberate block on their end. Generally, when an instance blocks us, we take that to mean they don't want us to communicate with them, and we try to respect that wish, so we haven't asked them to reverse their choice. On the other hand, *he's* always welcome to reach out to *us* (we don't block them back), especially if he thinks there's a reasonable prospect of reconciling our instances. I can speak with their admin out-of-band to try and smooth things over, but I'm not going to initiate that without some indication he's okay with hearing from us.
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