DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

@johnrandom@cryptids.online Are Orb Blessings covered by my national insurance?

Mr. @SquidPresident@cryptids.online , perhaps you know. Orb Blessings, on my plan?

People of Mastodon and #QoTo !

Please enjoy this offering of kitty picture: https://imgur.com/KBbbIv9

I love mah kitty <3

@doctorow Police don't make the charges, it's the district attorney you want to be pissy at. (It's still injustice, but better to properly focus your rage, yes?)

@cm Now you got to find something to read it and see if it has anything on it. Maybe it's someone's stash of incriminating pictures!

@packbat Clearly he needed to download some exposure.

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online I believe in Squid President.

@gealach Welcome to #QOTO ! :)

@Ophillous I still trust your hive mind, bees.

@hasmis Well, I have pet insurance, too. And there are so many vets in Tel Aviv that they tend to be competitive in terms of pricing. She's a good, sweet kitty, so she's worth every agora/penny.

@hasmis Likewise, if you feel someone is spamming, let us know. I can't promise the resolution you might want, but I won't ever hold it against someone to look at their concerns. :)

@hasmis The structure here is a little different than other platforms. Here at #qoto we haven't (that I'm aware of) silenced any stream, only some individual users who post racist or hateful content. We also block advertisers.

So, here, if you step into the federated feed you'll see just about everything anyone is posting. If you have a major issue with anything you see, though, let us know. I'm on all the time and try to answer moderation requests ASAP.

@hasmis The Six Million Shekel Kitty!

Turns out the kitty has an infection in her mouth. This explains her food aversion

@frostotron@tenforward.social Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's important, in my opinion, for people to look out for one another and watch out for 'extinguishing' attempts of people. As a Jewish person I'm sort of sensitive to the whole extinguishing thing, and don't want to see it happen to anyone for people just being who and what they are.

We have to be careful on the internet, though, because people will take something and run with it regardless of the actual truth. I've seen this happen within every community.

It's very easy to be on the 'same side' with the people you know and identify with. I know I find myself doing that all too often- my opinions of the people I interact with often are usually closer to my own so I will 'side' with them.

Anyways, you are correct. The Fediverse is a fantastic medium for everyone to find a social group that is of a similar style to themselves and I really like that. Likewise, I really like the people I've met outside my personal server. I'm learning a lot about other people and their experiences.

It's really fantastic to get that kind of exposure to thoughts and feelings and ideas that I might not have otherwise exposure to.

We just need to remember to be excellent to one another and look out for ourselves and each other out there.

@frostotron@tenforward.social There's another part of this you need to remember- Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Youtube: They don't charge you for the service they provide. We're not their customers.

Advertising companies are their customers. Advertisers want an "Advertiser Friendly" platform- that means getting rid of certain things that may have helped define a particular website in it's earlier days. That's the way capitalism works, unfortunately.

It goes to show how a federated network like Mastodon is superior for the user. Every one of us can decide where we go in terms of our local neighborhood and only follow those people outside our neighborhood that we choose. Nothing is given to you as "Toot of the Week" or "Trending, Follow this person who paid us.".

AT least, not yet. We'll see what the future brings!

@Gargron Is the NSFW stuff on there without CW?