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

@amerika Nah, I cant go with that. It has little if anything to do with critical mass or society breaking down. The truth is that many societies are just filled with immature people, nothing more, nothing less.

I've been to large cities all over the world with very large degrees of diversity and have often seen people get along rather well.

@amerika

well that certainly isnt true. I myself love ethnic food and the second it plops down in front of me it is immediately obvious if the dish was created by a native who grew up on it made by their grandmother every week, or if it is just some random native who is trying to imitate the style.

Granted shawarma itself is easy as there isnt much secret to how to make it. but try to get authentic vietnamese from a europeaner and nine times out of ten it will be obvious who made it.

You just cant replace a life time of eating your grandmothers food, no matter how good a chef you are. Sure you might make something good, but it wont taste authentic most of the time.

@carrabelloy @Prodigal @Gargron

@amerika

Whether diversity works or not depends largely on the people. I've seen diversity be disastrous, I've seen it be harmonious. Generally when the group is filled with mature decent people it almost always works, but such people tend to be rare, so it can also generally fail.

@carrabelloy @Gargron

@pganssle Remote timelines are already supported by all servers in the sense that there is a public standard API call that almost all servers implement that let you pull in their local timeline. So it is a standard feature.

What isnt standard is if or how the client actually lets you use it. Which has less to do with standards. Obviously if it weren't standard we wouldn't be able to implement the feature on QOTO in a way that you could pull in remote timelines at all (as the remote server needs to have a standard API point to pull from).

Most web clients dont support this feature, and some mobile apps do and some dont. But the implementation is standard and well adopted so should a client choose to implement this feature there would be no need for them to implement multiple variations to accommodate non-standardization.

As a general rule all the features I implement are as close to a standard as is available and we only deviate from standards in ways that either 1) enhance the standard without breaking it or 2) when there is no standard at all.

Rich-text/markdown posts, remote timelines, local-only posts, and in fact most of our features, are all well standardized. Even our quote feature, which doesnt have any sort of standard in ActivityPub or mastodon world, was based off the closest thing to a standard there is, namely, the way misskey does it (which is the only server that does it). In that case it is also rendered in such a way that is backwards compatible so clients that dont support the feature still can render the post in a sane way.

@mur2501 Depends on the feature. Some will be supported by husky some wont. I dont use husky so I cant say which are or are not supported. I use fedilab and I can say quite a few of the features we have are supported there and other mobile apps.

@cos Not any active plans, but I'd support it as one of our services considering its federated. Right now our discourse serves the function of event planning if needed.

@mur2501 We do now:

@mur2501 Check out https://qoto.org/about/more for a list of all the extra features we offer as well as other federated services we offer.

@mur2501 We do, and I will happily add any emojis you find we dont have.

@mur2501 No we are a fork of mastodon with significant features/code changes added on top.

QOTO has been officially added to the public suffix list! YAY!

@mur2501 65,535

@Vectorfield Trying to keep the feature set useful too :)

@mur2501 Sure, it wont lock you out of your account entirely. It will just move your followers to the new account any anyone going to your old account will be told that you have moved and where to find you.

@mur2501 You still can if they are on a remote account. Like I said they dont get deleted :) but yea no worries, I understand your reluctance.

@pganssle depends, somethings yes, somethings no...

Any of this can, in theory, of course be supported by mobile apps if they wish. It is int he API itself so its all there. some things we will get out of the box as they are already implemented and supporters, others features not so much.

So take the remote timelines that I just posted about. That is supported out of the box by some clients, I think fedilab is one of them. Other clients don't have it implemented at all. It really depends on the client.

Rich text is another example. Many clients do support it and yes it uses a standard to encode the rich text (just basic html actually).. but some clients specifically strip formatting despite this.

In the end it depends on the client and what they want to support more than it depends on the standards it seems.

@mur2501 To each their own.. But Id say no one is looking back at posts you made from more than a month ago typically.They are preserved though none the less.

@mur2501 All your posts yes, though not lost they would be at your old account. But you can keep your follower count (not just the people you follow but hose who follow you), as well as your block list and other stuff. So you really wont lose much, its your followers that is most important.

@carrabelloy

Its hard for me to understand everything you said as I relied on a translator. But I'm not sure I agree that the worst of this sort of racism and abuse is yet to come.. Don't get me wrong I dont deny its existence and am all for doing what we can to make sure racism doesn't perpetuate. but I do feel over time the racism has been decreasing not increasing, and I'd say that has been true in recent times as well.

@Gargron