Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@lucifargundam Well, at least that's a better idea than before coffee.

@DrMyc Uh oh! Did you put catnip on it?

@DrMyc Your laptop must be warm. :)

@DeepGreenDesign @gpowerf Hope not the whole stuff, and not at once. 😅

@lucifargundam Heh, cute. Were those good mints?

@PawelK Some say that they are still wandering the earth trying to find their destination.

@lydiaconwell What happened to @trinsec ?

@gpowerf Lots of pics?

@Romaq @freemo @lavenderlens @War_Kittens I think I get what she means. And I wholeheartedly disagree. To an extent.

If she was on a server with a huge blocklist.. let's take mastodon.art as an example since they do have one, then the silo feel might indeed be fairly big. But there are plenty of other servers which are not that restricted (Qoto being one of them, naturally, but the big ones like mastodon.social and mastodon.online are also fairly open) and which have a lot of people federating together.

On top of everything, she is used to Twitter, with her 92k followers. I wouldn't really expect someone like her to immediately feel at home in the Fediverse either. There's no algorithm gaining her a lot of followers at once. The approach's wildly different here.

If you already have a huge existing network elsewhere, you have very little reason to move over.

I am here for myself, for fun. I interact regularly here which I just cannot find on Twitter. I learned a lot of things from the people here, I never learned a thing on Twitter. My network is different.

Everybody has to find theirs for themselves. The Fediverse has its doors open to everybody. It's up to you all whether you want to take up on the offer or not.

@jeremysayz I don't have any statistics. Possibly @freemo can shed more insight into this than I do.

@PawelK Kind of amusing to see that they apparently are so over-reliant on this kind of... PR... that it's now biting them in their asses.

On the other hand, it is also kind of alarming to see that they apparently are so over-reliant on this kind of... PR... that it's now biting them in their asses...

@jeremysayz
There are a few servers blocking Qoto, yes. And they in turn will likely be blocked by other servers too. That's the nature of the thing.

In general Qoto blocks no other servers. This instance is one of the most connected servers around because it refuses to play a game of server politics like this. The reason also has a history that you can read up here: https://qoto.org/@freemo/109319817943835261
Not to change your mind, just to make you understand.

If you have issues following friends because of their servers blocking Qoto, then that's something you'll have to discuss with each other. Either they move to Qoto or a server which federates with Qoto, or you move to their server or a server that federates with theirs. A second account is also a possibility if you want to deal with that.

Not much we can do about other servers blocking us. They're always free to federate with us.

Whatever you decide, I wish you all the best!

@Corfliss I misread it first at 'pulling my first toot' and wanted to make a dental-related joke. 😅

Welcome to Qoto!

@Decad3nce Every time I see cryptocurrency mentioned, it somehow always leads to a scam or to an uncovering of a huge scam...

@oborosaur I think that server has blocked us about a year ago, no idea why. Their blocklist isn't publicly visible which is kinda a red flag to us (it might be huge).

Not much we can do about it. They're always free to unblock us and federate.

@engineeringdad That's why it's added to this server. But then, this is a STEM-focused server where such a feature is so much more useful so it's not really surprising. :)

@RYMAN_BADGUY Take your time, give yourself a moment to get settled in. Just be sure to read this server's rules, and the extra features this has to offer over at https://qoto.org/about/more

And maybe eventually post an introduction of yourself with your interests, keywords hashtagged, to maybe connect up with others with the same interests easier.

@engineeringdad
Just a heads up that when you quote-toot others, they won't get notified of this, so they won't see your response. You'd have to mention them in your commentary.

Additionally, this is a Qoto-specific feature. There are some other servers supporting quote-toot, but default Mastodon does not.

@freemo Stuff of nightmares.

@PawelK 😂