Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

You are far more likely to catch covid now than in the previous 2 years.

Cumulative infection is NOT good.

Do all you can to avoid it x

Attrocities will be discovered in Kherson. Here's the tankie guide:
1 It never happened.
2 They were Nazis so deserved what didn't happen
3 NATO/Soros/Ukraine staged it
4 What didn't happen to Nazis who deserved it/actors who staged it was a biolab
5 What about Iraq

Repeat

Amazing how Ukraine manages to plant perfectly aged corpses for the crime scene, en masse, without anyone ever discovering their creation, storage, transportation and delivery.

All my trolls are morons

This is a tiny piece of limestone but still an absolute favourite - a wee Loxonema gastropod sat on top of a bryozoan that is lying on a crinoid ossicle, which is on top of a brachiopod fragment! Rocks are awesome. 330 million years old from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Just an FYI..

I've disabled the twitter cross poster because... well it just didn't seem very fediverse friendly.

So, increasingly, there will be divergence between what I post on Twitter and what I post here.

Partly cos what I write is often influenced by what I come across on each site & partly cos double posting is boring & time consuming.

I don't yet know how the balance of posts across the two will evolve - but I've definitely reoriented myself assuming fediverse is like twitterverse

Boy do I have a lot of books

hey guys from Twitter.

we are glad to see you here but please understand that the fact that fediverse is anti-viral, anti-hierarchy and anti-capitalist is the point of it

please also understand that CWs, alt text and other stuff here is not there to "silence you" — it is to allow users greater agency over their feeds for their mental benefit, and to support disabled people.

this network was built by marginalized people. who disliked Twitter for the same reasons you do.

don't bring it back.

Because I'm on a German server my trending topics are #keinVergessen and #niemalsVergessen. This is because 9 November is the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

These brass plates in the pavements memorialise Jewish people at what were their addresses. I saw this one in Berlin in the spring. #NeverForget

When following back people here, I’m noticing a lot of people haven’t posted anything yet.

If you can’t think of anything to write just yet, then do consider just reblogging (=retweeting!) good content that you see around. You could start with this post, for example, to encourage more people to start sharing content around here.

BTW, as we get the Bylines publications going on here, that will provide ample good news content for the community. 👍👍

More loveliness. How amazing that the poor guy named John Lewis in the US not only gets a heads-up from the John Lewis company that their famed Christmas ad is about to drop and flood his mentions, but it's about fostering. And it turns out HE HAS FOUR ADOPTED KIDS. 😭

Someone in a group called Twitter “$8chan” 🤣

I see a lot of people talking about how Mastodon "Feels like the Internet I remember from 20 years ago."

That's no accident. That's Federation. That's UseNet, IRC, Email, Message Boards, etc. What do they all have in common?

Federation: Users congregating around watering holes of common interest, but still being a part of a larger whole.

THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WAS DESIGNED TO BE. And I am HERE for it.

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

Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
Election Day should be a national holiday.