@freemo Mmmmm. I recently engaged with you understanding you as an outlander who needed data, taking you on good faith.

Here's two questions:

1) Why, outside the states, are you hashtagging the second amendment?

2) How, outside the states, are you buying new guns every week?

I'm not closing the case here. But I am wondering.

@GeePawHill @freemo Apparently he grew up in Pennsylvania, says his bio, which might answer the second amendment bit.

But also he's on qoto, which I've heard very mixed things about, and is not-infrequently defederated. So that isn't a great sign.

@codefolio

We are actually one of the more federated instances in the fediverse, measured objectively.

There is a bit of a misinformation campaign about that, there is a list that uses a very wonky metric, counting number of instances that defederate. It was gamed by a bunch of people starting one-user instances blocking instances and reporting it to the list. so they managed to get really well federated instances showing as highly-defederated... its wild the shit going on.

But no, QOTO has a pretty excellent reputation outside of a few things like that.

@GeePawHill

@freemo @GeePawHill Perhaps the admin I was quoting -- who did, in fact, defederate qoto -- was thinking of that study, then.

That admin had had problems with people there. But the sort of specific "academic freedom for unpopular ideas" summary from the front page of qoto is *not* going to make for popularity with folks like that.

@freemo @GeePawHill I believe she had had problems with specific people from qoto, but I don't know exactly who.

@codefolio

Who is "she" and why didnt she report them then?

@GeePawHill