Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Breaking : Swedish Prosecutor drops Julian Assange rape prob
#JulianAssange

Walking around Amsterdam at christmas time.

#Amsterdam #chritmas #sinterklaas #netherlands

Europeaner: How many degrees are in a right angle?

American: Celsius or fahrenheit?

Seems #QOTO is seeing a third wave of users coming in now. Back when we peaked during the indian exodus we had about 200 new users a day or more, it fell back down to 32 users a day as of 2 days ago, but now today we are back up to 79 new users a day right now! Very cool.

We have also seen a nice spike in toot count, which is good to see, especially considering all the excellent STEM content I see in my steam, loving it!

This pattern seems normal for qoto everytime we have a new wave of users to mastodon. We first get an initial wave, it settles down, then we get a second wave as users learn about the network and decide to migrate over to qoto. It is all very exciting to see.

I'm curious about how this comes about though. Is it just people learning about the network, word of mouth, or perhaps some other factor. As a Data Scientist I crave more data purely out of curiosity.

Either way, welcome new users!

« ⚠️BREAKING: The European Investment Bank (#EIB) - the world's largest public lender - will end funding for #coal and #oil projects.

#Gas infrastructure could still be eligible for funding. But make no mistake, the age of #FossilFuels is coming to an end.

https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/climate-energy/2460/gas-slips-through-as-eib-slashes-fossil-fuel-funding/ »

— Retweet https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceEU/status/1195091214938386432

Fascinating history of the evolution of English! "How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Y63dBBlHlSk

Hi All, it's been a couple of days since I have Mastodon, but I haven't introduced myself. I'm from Tamilnadu, India and I'm and IT professional. My interests are astro physics, food, superbikes, nature and animals. I'm trying out veganism for the past 10 days and I feel good that I'm not hurting any animals. I am having a good time on Mastodon. Hope to engage with more people here #introduction #india

Mastodon said it saw 18,800 new users on mastodon.social alone over the last week

Mastodon is a decentralised social networking service. It does not collect user data to sell like Twitter does, and has released all of its code as open source and made it easy for anyone to start their own Mastodon instance

https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/mastodon-cashing-in-on-twitters-failings/71999126

"With streaming services there's no reason to pira-"

Exclusive content

Content that can easily be removed by any contract changes

Region locking

Not being able to offically know which content is available before subscribing

Bad UI

DRM playback

Online only

Only on supported devices/OSs/browsers

A British Asian man who has been fortunate enough to have a good career in finance gives away 50-75% of his income to charities helping developing countries, and still has a good quality of life in the UK and is able to visit his extended family in India regularly..

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/nov/09/i-give-away-half-to-three-quarters-of-my-income-every-year

@freemo @Deepsealioness @OpusOfAli Am a Hindu and am ashamed of the verdict as I feel it is gross injustice to the Muslims.