rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin

Branching colors

#generative #CreativeCoding #Processing

@neurob c'è poco da fare, quando i gruppi crescono oltre una certa soglia la massa spersonalizza e deresponsabilizza gli individui.

Ho abbandonato da molti anni il mio marxismo, ma da comunista libertario quale sono la lettera del ministro dell'istruzione e del merito (merda merda merda cacca pupù) è uno schifo assurdo.

"Il crollo del Muro di Berlino segna il fallimento definitivo dell’utopia rivoluzionaria. E non può che essere, allora, una festa della nostra liberaldemocrazia. (...)".

Lettera agli studenti italiani del ministro Giuseppe Valditara. 9 novembre 2022

FALLIMENTO DELL'UTOPIA STOCAZZO

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages

#TIL today I learned, that Pauli called Fermi merely a "quantum engineer", and since it was Pauli, most definitely in a super condescending fashion. Can't stop laughing from today's perspective 🤣
#quantum
#quantumtechnologies

Anyway. I'll do my #Introduction post too.

Hello people of #mastodon!
My name is Anakin and i suffer from #BPD and other mental health issues.

Sadly my body couldn't cope with the 3rd & 4th vaccine, so now i also have #PostVac/LongCovid with all of its fun. ☹️

I really love #science , #Lego & #StarWars

My hope? A cure for LongCovid (#BC007 ) and intranasal Vaccines.

I wish we would have #mandatorymasking and #CleanAir

I survived BPD so far. I Don't wanna die because of LongCovid.

Getting distracted by rendering proteins in pencil drawing. Just added auto-detection of alpha-helices which update whenever the Calphas move. It's been a blissful coding hole.

Let's see which community is bigger here!!

#DataScience #MachineLearning peeps who've already joined on Mastadon,what's your core language?

@rastinza

Fake news…

https://www.alucenter.be/le-recyclage-de-l-aluminium

I'd better do another #introduction with the new influx of folx into #fediverse.

Hi, I'm Dave. I'm a staff #Scientist at a biomedical Research Institute in #London, #UK

I'm a #StructuralBiologist by training. I help run a group that studies #Kinase #signaling in human #health and #disease.

I do #Crystallography #CryoEM #Biophysics #DrugDesign and #Glycobiology. #Science

Being a bit of a newbie (like most of us are!), here's a 'how to...?' question. Something like ecoevo.social would be a relevant instance for me but I already switched instances once, am not too unhappy with being in a general science one, and would like to avoid switching instances continually. So: is there an easy way for me to see a list of all ecoevo.social members without being a member oneself? That would make it easier to start following people I'm likely to want to follow.....

L'ONU stigmatizza il problema della poverofobia. Per chi mastica il francese e vuole approfondire la questione segnalo anche un volume bellissimo ed istruttivo del forum belga contro le disuguaglianze, che ha prodotto anche una serie web.

Tutto al link https://www.pauvrophobie.be/