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1. Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2019 03:35:45 UTC Rob G.

   If you open that link, you will land on a new tab and page, with some cryptic instructions (will explain then soon) and an input box.

   What to do here?

   - if you wanted to JOIN an EXISTING group, say QOTO's (which I created a few minutes ago), you would need to know the Group_name@Instance.name to enter it there. On my example, it would be : qoto@gup.pe

   - Done that? It will redirect you to a page, where you will see the Group Bot profile. Click on the "FOLLOW"button, and you will be ADDED to this particular group.

   - Any posts made anywhere in fediverse afterwards, and that include the @qoto attibution (username) will be Copied to the Bot there.

   And the bot will Boost and send it out to ALL the people Following this particular list. 😄

   Screenshot below shows this first entry point into Guppe. (I will describe How To Create a New Group on next post)

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   • Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2019 23:08:26 UTC Rob G.

     ** Things I would like to see in Fediverse and Mastodon:

     - When Boosting a post, the option to add a note or comment at the top (like it's possible when retweeting)

     - When people reply to a thread, that all people who posted on it so far got notified; sometimes threads branch off by posters removing attributions or replying only to one poster. It would be more productive if all saw it, imo.

     - in a more distant future, the amount of content will be so large that it will be hard to follow on chronological timelines, all posts into one big humongous Feed. (think Facebook?)

     Hashtags alone are not much of a separation, although they might helpf find something. Ideally, I would think something like the usenet newsgroups would tidy things up nicer.

     - If people understood that hashtags are not Cutesy decorations and did not abuse them like is common in certain (insta) places, Searching with Useful hashes would be sped up.

     All those words marked one by one with hashes are typically K Kardashian style, very gauche imo.

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   • Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2019 04:07:33 UTC Rob G.

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     @qoto I hope the previous post made sense? It was already in fact Boosted and distributed to that usergroup (which could contain any number of users), everyone following it will get notified and see it. Cool.

     - Oh, I want a Private group! 😄 Maybe in the future extra features will be added. For now, want a sec group? CREATE IT and DON'T tell anyone other than the intended users. Keep it hush hush and you get some privacy,

     (I think; it might show up on the local feed possibly? This is all new to me too, here trying to explain it to you)

     How About Creating a NEW Group?

     - reading that same screen above (again, it's located at : https://gup.pe/u/guppegroups )
     we see a reference to :

     "Create other groups by searching for or tagging @yourGroupName"

     OK - so say we want a new qoto-bikers group. We are all cyclists, and plan some rides, or maybe it's a motorbike group. Let's make it happen!

     - What group name? You decide. Keep it Simple. Short. Memorable. Obvious if you can!

     ok, how about qoto-bikers? 😄

     Sure!

     - This will be done from inside you own Home -- your own instance, in my case, this is qoto.org.

     - We enter the new Group name we decided on into the SEARCH box, on the top Left corner of the web page (or in the search box in your mobile app)

     On the screen below you can see the NEW @group_name@instance_name already typed in. Hit enter and it goes to work!

     Will show the result in the next post.

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   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2019 09:22:54 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @design_RG

     The QOTO user is announce only. We dont monitor messages to it usually (sometimes we do but no promises). Better to tag the mods directly.

     @qoto

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2019 09:24:55 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @se7en

     True :)

     @design_RG