obi 🍍 @obi@qoto.org

I'm not sure if I should be happy for Rovelli in his apparent acceptance and fear lacking approach to death, or to be skeptical at his authenticity (final chapter), The Order of Time.

@seldo Just saw your first post in thread. I understand now. Good point.

@seldo Settings, profile, Lock account (requires you to manually approve followers). When posting, followers only. Problem solved.

@skyblond I thought you said it very well. You will get some "But......" responses I'm sure.

@lts gotta let that steeeeeeeeeam out.

@lts cuz the car is hot, and you need to know that 😜

@freemo

Unfortunately, this is just the start. I have been saying this IRL for a while. Like all systems, Mastodon will devolve into into a hierarchical structure of reach. The idea of choice, like instance admins choosing to block certain servers will only be a choice in writing. A consortium of servers will develop a set of rules (kind of starting now). This group will have their own set of standards that will apply to all groups they federate with. As their group becomes larger, the group will defederate more instances. This will start with smaller, new instances. These new instances will comply the new standard, outside Mastodon's rules as a whole, out of fear of irrelevancies. Eventually, once this consortium of instances hits a large percentage of the userbase (maybe 10-25%) they will apply these rules to larger instances. Those that do not follow the groups standards will be defederated. From here, 2 things could happen. 1) Most everyone adopts these new standards, leaving a fringe portion of instances, not federated with many, or 2) the federation will fracture into 2 radical sides (sound familiar) who do not federate, and are just huge echo chambers.

Either of these results are boring, unimaginative, and unoriginal. The only path I can see not leading to this would be mastodon.social staying neutral. But with pressure, like all systems in jeopardy of losing power and influence, my guess is they too will cave.

All ideas of Mastodon being a place of broad ideas and freedom may be true now to some degree, but will shown to be illusion in the near future.

As always, this is just my opinion, and it doesn't mean shit. I hope I'm wrong.

@Gargron @khird @trinsec

@hikerfromva I was just on my iPad for a minute, and noticed I had Mast on here. Its great on iPad, not sure it would be on iPhone. Give it a try! @praveenchandran@mastodon.world

The people have spoken.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

@hikerfromva I do Home, notifications, local, federated. In that order. Home and local are best to me.

@hikerfromva Webapps like Sengi will not work with Qoto's fork. Browser is best, or like me, created a shortcut from your browser so it's a webapp on your computer.

@freemo realllllly? I guess the last time I looked on the moderated servers, I thought I saw it there. @battaglia01

@battaglia01 That instance is silenced @freemo

@hikerfromva np, brooooooooooo

@hikerfromva Now that you are setup, play around, and hit me up tomorrow. I gotta hit this book and fall asleep. That goes double for you @freemo , pretty sure it's almost 6am in Israel lol

@hikerfromva Yes sir. And then you are all set. I would suggest follwing the moderators @freemo @trinsec and @khird to start.

@hikerfromva yahtzee