🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@madargon I prefer satinism over satanism personally...

@funny

Welcome newcomers to the Funny group. A place to post all your memes and other humour!

#Joke #Humor #Funny #Humour #meme

@GuppeGroups
Hi, wanted to let everyone know about a new type of group server on the #fediverse. It works the same as guppe automatically reboosting posts as a group actor. However unlike guppy it is managed, each group has an owner who can moderate and post to the group as well.

If anyone is interested checked out https://groups.qoto.org and feel free to register one or more groups there.

If you have any questions about how to use the group server or how it works you can post them to this group: @QOTO

I must admit I am a little concerned that when you draw out a picture of the grim reaper on this online synthesizer the resulting music is actually reminiscent of the reaper...

Also check out @theamazingweb group I got that link from. It shares some pretty cool sites!

https://onlinesequencer.net/881141

@digital_carver

This is really cool! Turning into one of my favorite groups :)

@theamazingweb

@Electronics

Every damn time...

#Meme #Funny #Electronics #EE

@lucifargundam True of all companies really.. This right here is why we should be skeptical of the news as well, they are big corps only in it for the profit.

@StoneLi

LOL no, but last i checked we arent blocked by any countries either

@olamundo @design_RG @QOTO

@gawrsh Thats fair. I have no problem with states accepting ballots up to those marked election day. I would have issues with the rules changing last minute though.

@gawrsh I was asking what state YOU were in where the law was, as you say, changed only this year, and where it must **arrive** by election day.

Most stays only require the mail be **post-marked** by election day, not arrive by it (which I'd say is reasonable). I am also unaware of any states changing their rules just this year.

@khird It is certainly a factor that plays a role here. But that would probably only be an effect seen on smaller servers in relation to us, consider...

If a instance is sufficiently large then it is garunteed that at least one user on the instance would want to follow one of our users, especially since we are a large instance. If you are less interesting you might get 1 follower instead of 100 from a server of 100,000, but 1 or 100 makes no difference WRT federating. So for large servers if we federate or not is going to be almost entierly determined by if we are blocked or not.

It would only play a role if a server is small enough that popularity has a significant effect on if a server has that one user.

So its going to play a role for sure, but I dont think its going to be the majority of the effect at play.

@khird I think there is a subtle importance regarding what we measure... Are we trying to measure how popular our users are? Or are we trying to measure how many servers block us and what portion of the fediverse we federate with.

I was trying to measure how much of the fediverse we federate with more so than simple popularity. The point was to measure instance blocks and how common they may happen to be.

As such im not sure there would be a need to normalize the peer count. Sure M.S is expected to have more peers because they have more users. While that does say something, perhaps about how interesting we are as you say. If we really just care about how many servers are ferederating with us our prevalence for being blocked I'd say the raw peer count makes sense as was stated without any additional work to adjust for server size.

Insularity though I do agree with you, that needs to be normalized somehow to be useful.

@olamundo

My replies are always feisty. We are all friends here, we talk to each other as such.

But yea, I trust Rob with my entire server, and appreciate him as a friend. No spark there, at least not from my end.

@design_RG

@gawrsh Which state, I'd like to fact check this.

@khird

Agreed, to me insularity isnt as meaningful as peer count.

@djsumdog

Yea sadly a lot of the fedi is pretty quick to block. Though to be fair as a consequence youll find most servers are sadly often blocked by a lot of others. It is unavoidable. Which is one reason I'm rather impressed with how well QOTO does.

@olamundo @design_RG @QOTO

## QOTO, least blocked, best connected

'''QOTO is one of the least block and most federated server in the fediverse. I wanted to share some of the data we have to know thats the case.'''

Recently I had a discussion with @olamundo  and @design_RG  RG about if QOTO is blocked by many others servers and how to figure out if it is a problem.

The first thing to keep in mind is the only way you will ever find a server that no one blocks is if the server is new and no one knows about it yet. That means your messages wont make it into the Federated Timeline. So we want a server that is both established, **and** has a minimal number of blocks.

While there is no way to get a list of all servers that block your server there are several ways you can measure how well connected your server is which is an indication of your servers reputation in the greater fediverse.

the first and most telling measure is the peer count. The peer count are the number of servers that are aware of your server and federates with it. In other words it is the number of servers where your posts will show in their federated timeline, meaning they dont block you **and** at least one of their users follows one of our users.

**The QOTO peer count is ~9,200** give or take 100. You can find this information in the following two places (each approximately agreeing with the other):

https://www.fediverse.space/instance/qoto.org

https://fediverse.network/qoto.org

We can see how that rates us compared to other servers in the fediverse by pulling up the full list of servers above and sorting by peers. we see that **out of ~4000 server QOTO ranks 24th most peers**

The other way we can check is with a different measure called '''insularity'''. What this measures is how often people actually communicate across server lines with 100% meaning all communication is internal between users on a single server. So the closer to 0% we are the more servers we have communication with.

**QOTO has an insularity of 17.2%** which again is listed at the above link. There is no good way to rank this value, but if you look at all the other popular servers you will quickly see we have one of the best insurality values as well beating out even M.S.

#mastoadmin #fediverse #Mastodon #QOTO @QOTO

@olamundo

By the way I was in the middle of a write up that is mostly done that was directed to answer your question more fully and dive into this. Was going to post it top side and tag you. but confused by your last response (where you seem to be angered at being tagged in the first place) im not so sure if you want to be tagged or not or whats going on. Mostly just confused as to what got you upset all of a sudden since we were both trying to answer your question and I would want to respect if you dont want to be tagged just not to clear whats going on here.

@design_RG