@bibliolater you can subscribe to accounts?
@eatyourglory Yes, apparently.
@bibliolater how and from where?
@bibliolater you mean the icon that looks like wifi?
@bibliolater That is not a subscribe icon. That is an RSS feed icon. Try it.
@eatyourglory On my instance it comes as a subscribe button and yes it is a RSS feed icon.
@bibliolater what happens when you click on it?
@eatyourglory I have just done it. I have become your subscriber. I cannot tell what it is for.
@bibliolater I did not receive any notification about that. Let me make a normal toot.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@eatyourglory @bibliolater it's a qoto feature allowing for receiving updates of public posts without following. it does respect blocks afaik. cc @freemo
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Right its a qoto feature. Similar to using rss but you receive the content right in your feed as notifications. It is privacy respecting.
Only instances running qoto code have our extra features sadly. Most instances dont have it.
We developed it originally to protect our vulnerable members (such as lgbtq) who wish to follow certain risky accounts anonymously (like milos back when he was on here)
Accounts that would likely attack or dox an lgbtq member that followed it. Milo has been quite hateful towards members of the community.
I have no idea who Milo is... although i can deduce he's homophobic.
@freemo @bonifartius @bibliolater
I see so exactly as i thought. Well, nice feature qoto!
A big thing pulling me away from qoto is that it runs on v3.x.x of Mastodon.
It does not. We are a fork so our version has no relationship to mastodon anymore. We are our own software and are versioned independently.
Originally I did. Now we have a whole team runn8ng the show paid full time. They are currently directly volunteering time through my forprofit company but thats just temporary as we spin up a nonprofit which my company will donate to but will ensure corporate interests stay out.
@freemo @bonifartius @eatyourglory Thank you for clearing this matter up for me.
@freemo
if only my instance had these cool features...
cc @bonifartius @bibliolater