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

I just discovered that we' ve got a Discourse attached to qoto. Amazing! In a recent chat I heard about a friend trying to build a ActivityPub-based forum to integrate with Mastodon, but qoto's approach seems to be easier. An integrated account system, yet separated pages -- and not organized by a timeline.

** Just checked my mod email – 5 new applications, and TWO of them with responses.

I am ecstatic, friends. Thank you!!! Welcome !

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And I just prepared this post, to show people who might be interested in joining our community.

Qoto.org moderation team has decided to implement a new policy, to restrict new user applications - the door was NOT locked, but we are requesting people wanting to Join Qoto to provide a little info about themselves.

How do their interests relate to our Science, Tech, Engineering and Math focus, so that we could have a less General type of instance; there are MANY of those, open to signups.

I noticed in a @users post this morning that we have added *5 new users* only, over the last 24 hours. This is down from a recent peak of over 90 in the same 24 h period.

...and you know, there IS a reason.

We ask new users some questions, and they can fill in their response, which gets sent in to us, mods.

I looked at my email just now. I had 20 New User Application messages.

And I took a couple of snapshots - to share here. One of these has a ONE WORD response (not enough, you think?)

Most of them, had NO response at all. Honest, should we let such a low effort response in?

From the 20 in my email, I think I remember about *3 or so* that got approved.

Making this public, as I think it's for the BEST.

Thanks to @freemo and @arteteco - we are on the right track, friends. Steady as she goes. Carry on. 😛

@freemo @admin you're sounding like Bacon's (translated) novum organum (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/te8gXf9fXb7JWbJ9b/novum-organum-introduction). I think I found it in a toot somewhere around here

@freemo This is phenomenal. Ya, I don't think there is a chance we can hit the breaks on this. I found this the most interesting aspect of temperature increase. Unless we develop a mobile rebreather we won't survive the hydrogen sulfide environment naturally generated by ocean bacteria in warmer waters (obvious result of climate change).

"Once the oxygen is gone, the oceans become the realm of bacteria that obtain their oxygen from sulfur oxide compounds. These bacteria strip oxygen from the compounds and produce hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide kills aerobic organisms.

Humans can smell hydrogen sulfide gas, the smell of rotten cabbage, in the parts per trillion range. In the deeps of the Black Sea today, hydrogen sulfide exists at about 200 parts per million. This is a toxic brew in which any aerobic, oxygen-needing organism would die. For the Black Sea, the hydrogen sulfide stays in the depths because our rich oxygen atmosphere mixes in the top layer of water and controls the diffusion of hydrogen sulfide upwards."
-from article

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223130549.htm

Here is a small occurrence which I think heard is seasonal. This is the most recent event. experienced in San Diego, Ca. USA
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/rotting-stench-replaces-blue-flash-as-red-tide-sweeps-california-coast

#Climatechange #GlobalWarming #Science #QOTOJournal

Interesting Fact of the Day:

Current climate change is happening at a pace 6.2 times faster than the climate change that resulted from the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.

We have had 1.06 C change in about 150 years. The dinosaurs experienced a 4.5 degree change over 4,000 years. So for the dinosaurs it changed at a pace of 0.001125 C per year for us it has been about .007 degrees per year. So current climate change is happening 6.2x faster than it did during the extinction of the dinosaurs.

#FOTD #Climatechange #GlobalWarming #Science #QOTOJournal

Pup ducks his head when passing under bridges

With the distinction made between #PatternLanguage and form language by #NikosSalingaros, a broader vision of the "life" sought by #ChristopherAlexander has led me through #GeneralSystemsTheory and #RobertRosen into the R-theory of #JohnJKineman.

http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pattern-language-form-language-general-systems-theory-r-theory/

QOTO has now moved to closed-registrations. Users are free to invite friends to the server whom will be given priority. All future users will be screened for acceptance.

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Important QOTO announcement!

We are currently debating language rule changes in our Discourse forum. The current direction is that we may eforce in the next day a english-only rule for the server (though likely we will make an exception for accounts that are already established on the server that dont speak english). We havent made the decision final yet but we will be in the next day.

Please, if this topic is important to you please contribute to the conversation on our Discourse forum. So far no one has objected but if anyone does we would like to hear from you..

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/final-proposal-restricting-posts-on-qoto-to-english-only/226

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