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

@Eki Hello Eki, bienvenue a Qoto.

@globcoco

I hope you enjoy being here, and can see that your love of learning and writing will bring interest and activity from other posters. It's like a small party, good to have some conversation started, other people will see, come closer and possibly join in.

That kind of participation really builds communities, and aiming for that is any staff person's goal.

I was so frustrated with the state of our Local feed about a month ago or so. @Phaedrus posting and encouragement did a great deal to inspire me, and we managed a turn around, which makes me happy. I missed the camaraderie we had previously here, in November and December when I joined it was really nice. Then, it faded, as people's lives lead them elsewhere, and we got influxes of people who all had twitter friends and simply talked over to other instances. Local feed plummeted in interaction and quality.

@zleap

@zleap

That is an excellent post and I am glad to see out Forum being used more. Forums really allow so much that is difficult or impossible here -- like detailed formatting, in-line images, etc.

Like my new Topic there to collate all the Cat photos posting accounts --> https://discourse.qoto.org/t/cat-posting-accounts-for-fff-felines-follow-on-fridays/286

...which I have already mentioned here in a toot as a preview to this Friday's FF post.

I have used Forums for many years, and hope we can help people see their value -- and how easily we can connect ours here to the mastodon instance, linking back and forth as needed.

Great work, Paul, thank you!

@globcoco

@globcoco

You have been invited, and that is a sign someone sees you belonging here. Only Site Staff are able to create invites now. You are good, no worries.

@zleap

@zleap @globcoco I am glad to see you both alread knew the MarkDownTutorial.com website -- I came accross it just at the rignt moment in my journey, when I was first starting the blog in December 2019 and struggling with the ugliness of html markup. Not fun at all.

I found someone's Topic in another instance (visiting others, always fun), and went -- was astonished at how wonderful that tutorial is!

I am a Tech educator, and the tutorial is interactive and the best application of tech to learning that I have ever seen. I took the lessons and practiced, then switched over to my text editor and applied them. Revised the pages I already had made, and started new ones in plain markdown.

Geez, is it lovely! 😺

Latex I have never used, but looks wonderful for complex Math equations, so there's power on it.

Paul, not sure if LaTex is supported in the Forum, although you could create code and finished output here and copy paste images for illustration there.

@globcoco Thank you, Coralie. 😄

We are all Travellers, and it's nice to find a good person, enjoy some good conversation. Glad you came.

@globcoco Hello, good morning...

I added a screenshot of that area in the new Pinafore forum thread, but it's quite easy to find it.

Settings --> Instances ...and a whole panel will open up, with the existing instance connections, a button to add a new one, etc.

Forum topic is easier to read and prettier too : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/assigning-colour-themes-to-diferentiate-instances-at-a-glance/295

I am up and about now, coffee is ready, a new day starting. 😄

Some fun being had at the FediBlock brigade hangout. Kyzh, who would ban anything with a pulse of a faint breath, declares that Husky fediverse client is a national socialist piece of software. Because, the author chose not to lock out any instances the users might want to connect to.

Thanks to P for point it out, link in the folded quote.

@realcaseyrollins @khird I went looking at their profile and there's little new posts, after that extensive discussion a week ago or so, linked above.

@realcaseyrollins @khird

Good idea, let's invite @isolategab -- Hello, do we have any official news of Gab disconnecting from Fediverse for real now?

Thank you!

@khird Went to check and here's what it shows at fediverse.space -- https://www.fediverse.space/instance/mastodon.gab.com

and the same is also shown for their other URLs.

@khird That is a really good question - and I will enjoy watching the developments.

A lot of those people had hard feelings against the instance, or were aggravated with the admin. So I think there's bad blood and it won't be a quick heal.

I am glad if they are gone, a good thing; they were isolated and so little passed into the larger Fediverse, but yet the patrols were out, drumming people to be put against the wall. That FediBlock hash tag is completely disgusting.

@khird Found the topic, and it's a good read.

https://todon.nl/@isolategab/104254977308985846

@khird Did they announce the change of protocol and implement it already?

We had a nice discussion thread about it the other day.

* Cool Ideas we see out there. *

Earlier today I visited Tom's instance, https://kafuka.me/ , and noticed an interesting feature -- that Boosted posts were shown in their Local feed.

Remarkable, I had never seen that until now; later on, mentioned it to Koyu, at https://koyu.space/ . And Tom confirmed it's an Admin panel option in GlitchSocial.

Koyu being on the cutting edge, promptly offered if I wanted the feature enabled; I made some comments and left the decision to her.

Who quickly implemented it, see screenshot # 3 -- of the Local Feed.

Many thanks -- I think this feature is a great tool for smaller instances, helping add dynamism and Content Discovery. Well done, friends.

#KoyuJournal #GlitchSocial #NewIdeas

Also posted with #MarkDown love at : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104322461451094842

and https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104322475676277001 for 2nd part.