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So I posted some questions on our discourse about how we want to use and/or moderate the QOTOJournal hash tag. I will repeat the questions here and leave a link to the discourse at the bottom for further discussion.

Does it have to be STEM specific or can it include other fields?

Does it need to have scientific integrity (Peer review) or simply be "serious"?

Do we enforce any sort of quality standards?

Should it be restricted to only sharing ones own work or can it be for anytime someone shares serious work from any source?

Do we limit the timeline we have built-in to QOTO to only display users of the Tag from our local server?

Do we put any limits to how often people can post to the tag?

What measures, if any, do we want to use to prevent abuse of the tag?

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org-qotojournal-is-active-now/180/18

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さっき、Fedibirdの機能をマージしたQOTOの方々と英語で話をしていたんだけど、

・やっぱり英語で500文字は短い
・メンションで会話
・アツい

という感想を得た。

いつも日本語で500文字長文投稿しているので、日本語なら感覚的にどのぐらい書けるかわかっているんだけど、それを英語にして投稿すると2〜3分割しないと入りきらない。日本語の圧縮率凄い。

メンションで会話するのはもの凄く快適（それはそう）。そして話に集中できる。

タイムラインでの会話は、ホームタイムラインであっても、いつもの仲間達との会話、という枠で行っている。

特にメイン言語の違う人達との会話は、中途半端に省略することがなく、様々なことを明示的に示すし、もとよりわかるように話すことを心がけることになるので、何事もはっきりしていて小気味よい。

また、わざわざ声を掛けて話をしようというわけで、彼らはとても関心が強く、熱心だ。

ちなみにこの長い日本語のメッセージ、英語に訳すと1,079文字相当になる。日本語の圧縮率凄い（大事なことなので二回言った）。

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@mewmew

As far as i understand this code (I didnt write it so I may be getting it wrong) thats not hwo it works. Remote instances provide an API point that has the entire local feed (the public part). As far as I can tell when you view the remote timeline here by pulling it up via the properties as its own column then it does in fact fill everything in, not just things from the remote timeline, but there is a bug and it does miss some stuff I think.

What you describe does apply too but thats only when you do it through Domain Subscriptions a seperate but similar feature we provide that works through filtering the federated feed instead.

@noellabo @namark

Our new #instaceTracker are now up and live, everyone using Instance Trackers can now see our animated icon and QOTO colors! So cool

@n0btc So yea seems they do have retweet and retweet with comment.

And yes I did hear before (though I dont recall from who or if it is true) that the reason eugene left off the features was as you describes.

Eugene is extremely opininated about mastodon, its his project so his right, I am welcome to fork it, and well, thats why I did, I want some features he doesnt, thats my right.

Users will use whatever they enjoy in the end.

One of our moderators @design_RG wrote this excellent article on the QOTO discourse server that explains all the new features in QOTO along with screen shots and a detailed explanation of how to use it. Its worth a read if your feeling a bit confused:

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-org-new-january-2020-features-added-detailed-descriptions/192

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ManyBooks.net has many nice FREE ebooks. Classic, public domain and newer CC licensed ones too.

Including a good selection of modern Sci-Fi books, Cory Doctorow’s titles and others.

Cory Doctorow’s titles on file there: https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Cory%20Doctorow

Nice site, recommended.

https://manybooks.net

Just got confirmation from @miyon@miyon.net it seems the goto instance tag you all see locally will be accepted into the database in the next update. That means other instances that use the instance ticker will soon see the same colors as us and the same icon when seeing our own posts!

QOTO.org new January 2020 Features Added - 6 - Quick View Remote Timeline.

This is something I have just discovered, as I prepared screenshots for a previous post.

It is similar to the "Domain Subscriptions" feature listed previously. But :

- It can be done from ANY post, and allows you to instantly open a column showing the originating Instance's Local Timeline.

- Done taking a look? Just back out of it, open any other timeline and move on.

If you liked what you see in their timeline, then you could consider Domain Subscribing as described at https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-org-new-january-2020-features-added-detailed-descriptions/192/7 .

* Why would someone be interested in that?

- for diversity : the fediverse has a myriad of instances, and that means there's many different places. Some are big, some are small, many we can't even read the local languages, but it's fun to travel and see.

- when things get quiet at Qoto's local timeline... we open one of these and have freshly posted content from whichever instance we selected.

Isn't this snooping, or uncool, or frowned upon? No, not at all.

- we can only see posts that were made Public at their original instance.

- these posts will be Federated and will join the millions of others in the Home and Federated feeds.

* How do we open this Quick View into a Remote Instance ?

Reminding everyone that this feature is now available here at Qoto.org, and it will not work elsewhere (unless the instance installed similar modified software).

But, I was really surprised on finding it here too - even @freemo hasn't mentioned it, and likely is unware this is now possible.

- From ANY post in the Home or Federated feeds, click on the "..." Dots menu in their lower part.

- There are various options, some quite useful for controlling unwanted content (mute, report, etc.)

- And on this list we now find "*Open instance.name timeline*". (see screenshot #1)

- Voilá.. Click on that, and the screen will display a Full column of the remote instance posts; their Local timeline in fact. (see screenshot #2)

As shown in the screenshot, *we are still on the qoto.org domain*, but the timeline displayed is from ***blob.cat's posts***.

That's it, simple as that!

Like it? See the instructions and Subscribe to their Domain if desired --> https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-org-new-january-2020-features-added-detailed-descriptions/192/7

** You can also see this post in prettier, easier to Read format at the Discourse Forum : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-org-new-january-2020-features-added-detailed-descriptions/192/9

** Why, Prettier? Because.. Text formatting, Header sizes, Bold and Italicized text styles, Inline images inserted in the proper place on the text, that's why. 😛

@puzzl Learning another language is very difficult. You are trying so dont be discouraged. It will get better with time I'm sure and you should be proud you can speak another language at all because it isnt easy.

Minor Update just went down to the instance ticker. The qoto.org instance ticker now has its own custom icon and colors. Since we are a significant fork from vanilla mastodon it made sense that we have our own unique colors to represent QOTO instance and derivatives.

Please let us know if anyone sees any unintended side effects or if anyone doesnt like the new change. We can always fix it.

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