adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

@levisan of course, that might not be the best indicator... qoto was at the time i joined one of the higher MAU instances. i could even see it being the case that small instances are cheaper and so tend to survive more vs larger ones.

@levisan interesting. so via my optimus@beige.party test account i can view my qoto account and follow it, but the most recent post it shows is from 2024! https://beige.party/@sabbatical@qoto.org

@levisan oh yeah? it is a great name. i didnt find any info on their federation/silencing policies, and they dont have many active users so would be a tiny bit worried they might some day go under. but i seem to recall they were not militant political censors when i was looking into them, and they dont seem to appear on defed/blocklists that i've seen, unlike qoto. i'm also looking at infosec.exchange, chaos.social, typo.social, but noticed on chaos.social they publish their instance defed list and qoto is on it. so i wonder if qoto got broadly defederated and that's why it's kinda keeled over.

@levisan I made accounts on beige.party, tilde.zone, mastodon.technology, and indieweb.social back when I was surveying the landscape... but ultimately chose qoto for its openness/balance when it came to not blocking other instances on my behalf. Not sure what the wider situation is for that anymore

@levisan hm. guess i should find another instance and migrate again before that happens. how annoying. any ideas for contender instances?

had trouble even posting that reply to you just now!

seems like qoto’s got no active admins anymore — weird situation. makes me wonder if one of these days the server is just gonna go down

@gerritvanaaken @OndrejMirtes @frankrausch yeah, i'd love to know too! if its actually gotten to that point, i'll be over in a jiffy!

@freemo @khird @barefootstache Hey are any admins on here still active? My profile has been 500-ing for some time now... becoming very frustrating. Can anyone help?

Could be database row corruption? Is anyone running maintenance commands etc these days?

Worst case, I could try moving instances but I doubt even that'll work if my posts can't even be pulled from the Qoto db/api...

@levisan as in john the baptist's diet being locust tree fruit rather than insects? my understanding is insects is the more traditional / linguistically likely view (and more nutritionally sustainable)

@niclake sucks man. what’re you looking for? dev i guess, right? but anything else? or any particular strengths or niche you are aiming for? remote only?

@niclake Yeah similar here, though my wife does have some work cleaning houses. At least we still have basic medical covered by the socialized health insurance here, thats gotta be a whole other level of stress.

Seems like Flare’s working better on my phone — maybe the Mac app is just not there yet.

@niclake Sorry to hear you got laid off, man... So many guys I know (hm, and actually all guys, weirdly enough! hah) have had this happen lately. I myself had my main freelance contract cut drastically as well.

Anyone else not able to view your own posts/replies on your profile here anymore? Everyone else's profiles still seem to render for me. Little "500" toast notifications pop up when I click "load more", but that's it.

cc @QOTO @freemo

@d1 Not sure about RSS as new one-way email mailing list. Granular settings for what you get and customization per person would be lost, plus you wouldnt actually possess the copy of the thing you are sent the way you do with email

Whoa... is Flare the holy grail of cross-twitteresque platform apps?? Mac client and everything

Seems like maybe the trick is to set up forwarders and just make sure sysadmin hygiene is done to make sure DMARC/SPF/DKIM are all copasetic? Still seems like unnecessary work.

Anyone else unsure what to do with Gmail phasing out POP3 support? Pretty much all my emails get pulled down into one gmail acct from various custom domain inboxes. Definitely not going to be setting up Google Workspace for all these, even if it was free.

why do i immediately start questioning the professionalism of an org or biz whose website uses the montserrat font?