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

We have all seen the nice B&W photo of a female soldier posted here, so I won't post again (I like the photo and her, after finding out who she was and what she did)

Lyudmila was a snipper in the Red Army, at a time when it looked like her country was going to be taken over by a determined invading army. She fought them bravely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

* Special hashtag to highlight serious posting ? *

Received an interesting suggestion via Direct Message, it said :

"What do you think about: Starting a hashtag like : "qotoarticle" and all users who publish journalism-like or good pieces from the Net using this #, to make it possible finding an interesting collection of *qoto-news*, without all the fun-stuff burying it?"

This is a nice idea -- and I am opening a Forum discussion thread for it.

My thoughts on the matter, on today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting

* Want some good music without paying for online streaming services? *

Local music works well; or if you are lucky and there's an interesting radio station you like.

Consider some of the Themed, Genre specific stations. Many out there, most freely accessible.

I work away at the computer here, listening to WNED Classical, they transmit in FM and also broadcast via internet. https://www.wned.org/radio/wned-classical-945/

If you like Jazz, there is a good station in Toronto, Canada, although they have some annoying commercial to keep the lights on, supposed to be a non profit so less ads than usual, and good music.

https://jazz.fm/

Special hashtag to highlight serious posting at Qoto.org?

I received an interesting suggestion via Direct Message, my correspondant has this suggestion :

> What do you think about: Starting a hashtag like : "qotoarticle" and all qoto-users who publish like journalism or good pieces from the internet shall use this # to make it possible to find an interesting collection of qoto-news, without all the fun-stuff?

This is a nice idea -- and I am opening a Discussion Forum thread to chat about it.

** Forum thread is now LIVE at https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org/180 **

Why there, not here? A few reasons:

* we won't be posting all kinds of tag ideas with hashes that will go live, and maybe never used again.
* it's open to anyone who wants to read it, as I will add thread URL here, and it's publicly readable to all.
* it's open to replies, all you need is a quick registration, confirm the email, and presto, you are in.

So all good, isn't it?

Consider it done, my friend, and here are some of my hash suggestions.

* They need to be easy, short if possible.
* easy to spell so both posters and searchers can use the tag for their own means.
* unique, so they will collect the intended posts and no strain content.

Which do I think could work? Uhmmm... Brainstorming, put ideas out and don't judge them. Add more ideas. Decide later, evaluation time.

Maybe : qoto-news . qoto-journal . qoto-daily . qoto-top . qoto-stem . qoto-hq .

or : stem-news . stem-hq . stem-daily . stem-mvp .

Do they have to include the "qoto" word and brand ID? not necessarily, we are just considering ideas here.

* If including, they might get people to pay attention to our instance in general.
* It could be used by others, in fact any hash tag can be overwhelmed and spammed, unfortunately;
* not much defense from that other than blocking the twits who did it.

There, the ball is at play, let's hear what you all think?

Thank you for considering and participating.

#STEM #science #math #Engineering #Math news are of interest to people all over the #Fediverse

Forum thread is now LIVE at https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org/180

As soon as I saw this graph on an instance I just joined (the Pilgrim spirit is strong on me, Luke), I thought about Dr Freeman's mentioning missing good people to talk #math with. 😄

Ingo runs some great services - both:

* a mastodon instance at https://nerdculture.de

* and a much more rare Friendica instance at https://nerdica.net/

I am not sure, but I think he might be the operator offering the brilliant idea of a TRY Friendica instance; where people can creat an account and see what it is like, for a short period.

Accounts are removed after a week, and I did use it, posted a few things, then got membership into Nerdica.de for the long haul.

Try Friendica is at : https://tryfriendica.de/#

** Mastodon SHOULD probably have something like it! **

Thank you, Ingo! @ij

A lot, most animated gifs are annoying, and some of us curse the day that was invented. But I just found a NEAT example of how it can be used nicely.

Telegram just released a new version, and it has the new feature of preparing a message but not sending immediately -- but setting a later time for it to go.

Well done, Telegram. I have used it briefly and was quite impressed with the fluidity of the app, the UI design, how well it performed.

If you have contacts already using it, or willing to switch -- a much better instant messenger than WhatsApp, or God forbid, the ghastly FB Messenger junk. (that I absolutely REFUSE to even consider).

New blog at Telegram HQ : https://telegram.org/blog/verifiable-apps-and-more

January 2nd is World Introvert Day.

* The Fediverse reminds me so much of FidoNet *

New Year's day, and all is quiet in the land. :-)

Remembered a blog idea; a few days ago, we were chatting in the network. About a situation that reminded me a lot of the BBS world; where I started in computers, dial-up modems, and the network called FidoNet...

New post, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/the-fediverse-reminds-me-so-much-of-fidonet

As the efficient markets hypothesis turns 50, it is time to bin it #xp https://www.ft.com/content/dbf88254-22af-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b via @FinancialTimes@twitter.com

Sucks. WhatsApp suport for Windows Phone devices dropped.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=auto&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwinfuture.de%2Fnews%2C113257.html

And also:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=auto&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwinfuture.de%2Fnews%2C113257.html

The man who made Wolfenstein #xp https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/12/24/21029936/castle-wolfenstein-silas-warner

♥️ #xp
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@Maybel_Syrup @katya_zamo Sophisticated 🤓
https://twitter.com/Jfayepaints/status/1212188783547944962

Tiny scale, huge cuteness.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #meow #xp
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https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1212164038211227649

#CyberPunk #art #love #xp
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ArtStation Challenge - Beyond Human 02, Franklin Chan https://buff.ly/2Qa3lOb
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1212301442301800448

Really interesting to see Statistical Data on this. Los Españoles, ellos hablan muy rapidamente, sín duda! 😉 #xp
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Spanish speakers talk much faster than English speakers. Yet, they communicate information at roughly the same rate. Why? Our article from September explains https://econ.st/2PJewNS
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1212251562703237120

#Art #Cyberpunk #xp
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Get enhanced (or die tryin), DOFRESH . https://buff.ly/2tcc8pX
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1212131378164310018

Unknown to me until now, an important moment in History. Surprising, since the Roman rulers pioneered the Panem et Circensis model -- keep populace distracted and RULE unopposed. Widely in use today still. #history #xp
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Today in #history: Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian E…
https://twitter.com/ahencyclopedia/status/1212357809582596097