Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 24

@magvids Because the process is slow and boring (who wants to see someone work on a computer chip for 3 weeks) you wont find anything all that compelling in videos other than a few highlights here and there.

But there are TONS of photos, particularly around when the modules are nearing completion and you have something to look at.

Definately plenty of pictures and a few videos. Where did you get it in your head that none existed, that seems rather strange, of course they exist. I attached a picture of one for reference.

@magvids You said its not of the making of the ISS, obviously its assembly in space is part of its construction (and there is plenty of other footage of other parts)... what are you even saying? You're upset there isnt more footage than there is or something?

@magvids Sure and they recorded it and your welcome to see it. Whats the issue

@magvids Oh wait you actually think there are no videos of its construction? Of course there are, not hard to find them either.

https://youtu.be/ufVeCmO1eyY

@magvids Why is it difficult to understand?

@design_RG Sadly there is a lot of this sort of people. Most of the mastodon are whitnighting against violations they see on FB or twitter. As such they are usually quite assertive about their politics.

@design_RG

Keep in mind the QOTO server (and as an extension myself as the founder) are several years old. I've been around since the earlier days of the fediverse. So I have seen how a lot of what you deal with now evolved in the first place.

@lnxist @snow

To go with my profile picture

How the Liberal Left created the Conservative Right and extremism in the fediverse:

As someone who cares greatly about equality, and recognizes minorities and underprivileged groups deal with some unique and difficult struggles I realize the title to this post would seem a bit inflammatory. But that is not my intention, my intention is to address a very real problem.

As anyone on the fediverse knows there are generally two major groups of instances. Those that wont ban anything of any kind, no rules it's the wild west (red instances). Then there are those that ban anyone who shares any opinion that disagrees with their politics, even if you criticise both the left and the right in the same breath you will likely quickly find the instance or yourself banned.

However the unfortunate consequence of this pattern of behavior is to promote ever increasing support for red instances and to drive grey instances (instances that take a middle ground) into being red instances. Should be obvious why...

You basically have a spectrum of behavior with red on one side and blue on the other. With everyone crammed into the 0.1% of either end of this spectrum that means most new instances will start off, most likely, somewhere in the grey area, even if their just marginally shy of being red or blue in its full extreme.

The experience for an admin of such an instance is to quickly be overwhelmed with people from blue instances blocking and banning for things like criticising a democratic politician or something rather minor. By the end of the first few months a blue/left leaning instance will quickly find itself on dozens of suspend or ban instances as a result and find they only have a voice among the 99% red instances and the 1% grey instances out there.

Since this means they naturally wont have a voice among blue instances, and most people are on social media because they want to be social, this means their only incentive is to appeal to red instances (since that's where all their boosts and likes come from). Along with building animosity for how blue instances treat them and with the acceptance of red instances you will find all the incentive for the instances to move to be an extremist red instance with extremist no-rule policies quickly develop.

As such we see exactly what we are seeing now on the fediverse, an ever increasing number of red instances very quickly overwhelming and overtaking the blue instances.

Of course this is made worse by the fact that those ont he blue instances can only see other blue instances. so they will be under the mistaken impression that the red instances don't exist and that the blue instances are thriving and growing and dominating over the red instances. This ignorance just ensures the red instances grow unchecked and unchallenged.

As someone who's personal policy is anti-extremism, and with this pattern being one that generates extremism it is very VERY concerning to me.

#mastodon #fediverse #uspol #extremism #mastoadmin

@design_RG

Here is a relevant post I wrote about 5 months ago that touches on a lot of what I said in my last post in more detail (it got a big reaction both bad and good int he fediverse)

https://qoto.org/@freemo/102720253460317829

@lnxist @snow

@charlag been on develop for a while now. I realized that too when all the features i needed werent there

@boyd Yes there is, though I font recall what it is. by default it usually detects the city but you can send it int he url to specify it manually. I dont remember the parameter though

@design_RG

One thing to point out is that GAB got the way it is mostly because of the very actors that you describe (in general not these specific people).

Now before i continue I want to say, GAB is, at the moment, and for most of its history, very right wing. ITs content is significantly disgusting and I dont follow even a single GAB person (though have met some nice GAB refugees). So with that said let me continue.

The original mission, and even their current mission, was never to favor right-wing in any sense. They opened in response to FB and twitters censorship with only one goal in mind: free speech. Granted they took this goal to the utmost extreme, but in and of itself nothing horrific about the networks intentions.

However the left, particularly in europe, sees "free speech" as a sort of trigger word to mean "evil things are condoned here". So as a result the left boycotted the system from very early on. The end result is that hte left and even many moderates created the vile nature of GAB simply by boycotting it, leaving only the vile people to remain. Evil thrives in the darkness, by withdrawing and allowing an echo chamber to exist it ultimately snowballed and created a safe haven for that very darkness.

Federation I saw as an oppertunity to bring isolated, cruel people back into a larger community where their views can be challenged for the vile nature they are and hopefully well meaning people could bring some of these people back to the light. But instead the idea of blocking the whole network has only strengthened their resolve and given them an echo chamber where their ideas of prejudism are praised and reinforced.

We have to recognize that while they are entierly accountable for their own actions, we live in a society and int he long run it does more harm than good to silo them away in their own corner of the internet.

@lnxist @snow

Oh pooh, you are so right!

Every artist...

When you put it that way it is a bit creepy

#joke #funny #humor #meme #starwars

@realcaseyrollins If i saw that I wouldnt doubt it was real unless i knew better

@ramskulls For reference here is our current logo. If its something your down for I'd be happy to pay the fee + tip:

@fluffy I'll find the specif commit when i have time if you cant but here is our source: https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto

@Shamar

It isnt victim blaming, it has nothing to do with blame. I never said who is to blame for their irresponsible buying habits and largely I dont think blame is useful so much as being awae of the irresponsibility and changing those habits anyway.

In fact everything you keep saying seems to fail to understand what i keep saying. Take for example "arguing that #Ads exist to merely inform people about products they might ignore " is completely contrary to what I said. While that may be one element of ads I never said that was "merely" what ads were for or even that it was the majority of cases.

With that said I use an adblocker and refuse to use sights that require me to turn it off. So the power to see ads or not is largely a choice I can and do make for the majority of ads in my life.

Capitalism doesnt do damage, greed and corruption does damage. Those are pervasive in different forms regardless of the form of government. With that said pure capitalism with no restrictions is unhealthy too, capitalism is the default of a free society but there are certainly areas where non-capitalistic strategies are preferable.

@design_RG