Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

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@ianmacd We put a lot of effort into being respectful well behaved members of the wider community. So I'm glad that can be seen.

We actually had a rather unique history with our stance as free speech. Early on when GAB came ont he scene is when instances started to push other instances to defederate with anyone they didnt like. As such you get a few instances with massive block lists of pretty much any instance that federates with any instance they block, and then any instance that federates with them, ad nauseum. At the time we were stuck to make a decision, get cut off from short sighted but well intentioned instances, or start censoring our users view of the fediverse. So it entered a debate here in our very early days as an instance.

It turned out that the LGBT community were actually the ones that convinced me of a free speech stance, which is ironic as many of the LGBT instances are the ones that ultimately took a block-first mentality. What had happened is LGBT servers were very heavily blocking instances that exhibited anything remotely resembling intolerance. This left very few LGBT friendly instances that were free speech and as a result we had a sort of exodus of LGBT scholars joining QOTO (and boosting our early numbers).

It turns out the LGBT community had a strong voice when we opened the discussion up to the community. Many of them explained to use that they came here because they monitored hate-speech accounts on GAB and other places to identify doxing within their community and other threats and warn the members of their community. So they felt their safety was at risk on other servers, they also didnt feel safe on other free speech instances since hate was common on those servers and didnt want to be on a hate speech instance. So they urged us to not block other instances, and ultimately the community agreed and we remain free-speech.

It is also why we implemented features like subscriptions, specifically for the LGBT communities safety and others in a similar position as them. This way they can get alerts of the public posts from threatening accounts they monitor without actually needing to follow the account and alerting the account that they are following them.

Its just really sad how some in the LGBT community have ultimately used that against us, that we went out of our way to take the heat for the LGBT community at the time only to see a small number of people use our decision as a weapon against us. Thankfully its a small minority of servers today, but still it was sad to see.

For what its worth QOTO is one of the most heavily connected servers in the fediverse. Last I checked we were in the top 10 of english speaking servers.

So wahr :D

Bluesky thinking of a "governance" body of the fedivers - If it does not have elephants running around throwing paper planes it's likely the wrong structure #bluesky thinking http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/2021/03/13/bluesky-thinking-of-a-governance-body-of-the-fedivers/

Contraband dealer from the future.
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Lots of people are forgetting (or does not know) what 'Free Speech' really means.
SMH when stupid celebrities cry censorship when they get fired for saying idiotic things.
Remember:
"free speech" DOES NOT mean "the freedom to say whatever you want without any consequences."
This old-ish article is worth reading even now:
https://www.cracked.com/blog/no-free-speech-not-under-attack.-being-a2A2Ahole-is./

What is it with conservatives and this "there are only two sexes" nonsense... Are they trying to convince us they arent any smarter than a grade schooler or something. Anyone who has had more than an elementary school education knows full well its not that simple...

#LGBT #transrights

Ether has surged past $2,000 to a new all-time high as the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain continues a year-long bull run.

by @wsfoxley https://trib.al/AlZ2PT2 https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1362978134879064072 #Crypto #Blockchain #Cryptocurrency #Ethereum

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Next time your feeling down just remember there are people stupid enough out there to sincerely beleive germ theory is a hoax, the earth is flat, and that human-caused global warming is a conspiracy...

People literally beleive the whole of science is some giant cabal of scientists in on the conspiracy just so they can get paid... never mind the fact that research scientists are some of the lowest paid scientists compared to those who work for companies implementing and doing...

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@sgryphon Indeed I had the time to try it, and it works very well, I can now access that ipv6 server from my ipv4 network. Thanks!

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Democracy is NEVER about empowering tiny numbers of "elites" from any prospective.

We need structers without centralisation. Don't grasp POWER, spread POWER

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RT Ryan Sean Adams - rsa.eth 🏴
Federal Reserve of St. Louis drops a paper on DeFi

"DeFi may potentially contribute to a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure."

They even nail the diagram of the DeFi stack.

Q: Someone at the Fed reading @BanklessHQ?

A: Yes.

👇 https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2021/02/05/decentralized-finance-on-blockchain-and-smart-contract-based-financial-markets
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1358876105541881863 #Crypto #Blockchain #FED #FederalReserve #StLouis

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