*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

@IntegralDuChemin oops...

Consider the Stars, maybe wait a bit? She's a good astrologer.

https://twitter.com/CosmicGoddess__/status/1259979288377462790

Wonderful logo borrowed, couldn't resist, from Queens Of Theater of the Oppressed, with our thanks. #WeAreQotoToo

Make Qoto Great Again!

A new campaign, let's bring a lively Local Feed and social interaction to the instance...

it depends on me, it depends on You, and us all can make it happen. 😺

#QotoJournal #MQGA

@IntegralDuChemin Hope that happens, and soon. Spring is in the air... 😺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58T0NlhNweA

@vovanium you are welcome, it's nice that we have that feature -- really wish we had Edit posts like many other platforms.

Friendica for example, has it, plus Text formatting which I sorely miss here. Arghh. And Eugen won't bother, as he's a Twitter user in his experience.

Pleroma offers much nicer features, I prefer it to Mastodon in fact.

"WE can never obtain peace in the outer World until we make Peace with ourselves. "

The Dalai Lama.

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/12-timeless-life-lessons-learned-from-the-dalai-lama.html

@vovanium Nice post, beautiful format.

You can use the Delete/Redraft function to remove the OP, and do an edit in it -- it will all be there when you hit the button for a new Toot, just paste in the equation and send.

@IntegralDuChemin LOL, yey for the new chemistry. Hope you find love and enjoy some time together!

@freemo @nosocialperson That is nice inded. Legacy. 😺

@Sphinx Space Invaders, we played a lot of that in the 70's and 80's. Arcade game, nobody had computers, never mind cell phones. 😜

https://youtu.be/MU4psw3ccUI

@Scrat Location, location, location first of all..

@gioypi awesome, you too. 😺

@freemo
Thank you, that's appreciated.

@arteteco @mewmew @snow

@freemo @arteteco

We have a major discussion and policy changes ongoing, which is taking a lot of people's time and energy,

I suggest you could create that Discourse forum thread, but no announcements yet - it's too time consuming as it is.

We have personal lives and this is exacting a huge toll on my time and energy. I am just requesting time.

The example mentioned above is a clear violation of our ToC, and was properly handled.

Sadly it went to far, as in reaching Harrassment level.

@mewmew @snow

@gioypi New user, welcome to Qoto, nice first post. 😃

If you have any questions just ask. Not sure if you need a guide for Mastodon, Fediverse? I have some links if needed.

Enjoy your day.

@freemo This page seems to have some recommendations.

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/best-ar15-suppressors/

@Fraciel És simple, en verdad.

* vayas a https://fosstodon.org/auth/sign_up

* escribes el nombre de usuário que deseas.

* y entonces una clave (password) que te agrade, qualquiera que puedas recordarte. (como en otros sítios en web).

Pronto, y estas listo para enviar. Hizo una captura de pantalla, ahí la vees. (Con unos ejemplos de dados ya entrados.)

@Fraciel Necessitas un coreo electronico que puedas acessar. Quando mencionas mastodon.social, no sé o que hiceste exactamente.

Se si completa el registro a https://fosstodon.org/auth/sign_up

...imagino que debria funcionar.

Pronto, me parece que funcionó para mi. Recibí el mesage de confirmación sin problema.

Sabes que no piuedes hacer el registro a https://mastodon.social/ pero tienes que usar el enlace arriba (Fosstodon), correcto?

@sofivear Hello, you need to send a request to @freemo who is the local admin. He will request that you send an email from the registered email address for your account, and respond to him from there - to avoid hacked accounts being deleted too easily.

I included his account name above and he should reply here later with more details. Thank you, good luck!

In regards to the Qoto Announcement about language uses in our Mastodon and other services.

[ Posting this here, top level, for exposure. ]

This has been percolating since November 2019 - at least.

The discussion started right here in the Local feed in this instance. We moved the discussion to the Moderation section (publicly viewable to all) since it was getting fragmented and difficult to follow.

This topic from November 2019 has link backs to Toots here as well : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-non-english-and-foreign-script-posts/102/5

At the time the issue was an incoming wave of Indian users, some of them posting in regional languages and character sets that nobody in our staff could read, never mind monitor for any needed moderation.

We had another wave of incoming users, refugees from Twitter like the Indian users, in the last days of December, 2019. There was a huge spike in user account here and in many other instances, and many of those Spanish users are still active here and elsewhere.

The main issue with foreign languages in the instance is for monitoring content -- in regards to being adequate to our instance's Focus (a STEM place, primarily), and not abusive or containing any content that is inappropriate in accordance with out Terms of Service and Conduct -- see : https://qoto.org/about/more/

I am part of the site staff and moderation team, and I do speak 3 languages as mentioned in my profile. I am comfortable working in all 3, plus some other Western European languages.

Some of our staff might handle one or two more with proficiency, but we cannot do it for many of the World Languages, which are rich and represent people cultural inheritage.

We are responsible for the upkeep of this organization, and feel we can't go on without being able to monitor content added to our various resources here.

The thread linked in the OP above is new to me, but I will be reading it.

We had this as our most recent discussion and resolution thread on the Languages issue -- https://discourse.qoto.org/t/resolution-establishing-a-new-qoto-language-policy-going-forward/220

Decisions are not taken lightly or off the cuff or on a two line post, I assure you.

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in response to https://qoto.org/@QOTO/104147229937571199 and @pemoe comment there