Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 51

@mewmew

I'm more concerned with the ones starting riots, violence, blocking traffic. When I think of the extremist left I'm not really worrying about the stoner who dreams of a world where he never has to work again. I'm more worried about the guy brining a knife or some fireworks to a protest to use on people.

Or even the more benign people who are using force to take away peoples right to speech I often see (like sabotaging sound equipment or similar.

@timorl @SecondJon @georgia

@mewmew

I'm more concerned with the ones starting riots, violence, blocking traffic. When I think of the extremist left I'm not really worrying about the stoner who dreams of a world where he never has to work again. I'm more worried about the guy brining a knife or some fireworks to a protest to use on people.

@timorl @SecondJon @georgia

@georgia

Even then its only the middle left that sees them as crazy.. The true left (just shy of extremism) just sees them as "passionate"

@SecondJon @timorl

@timorl @SecondJon

I think you both are missing one important fact.. People int he alt-right consider themselves part of the right but alternative to the mainstream views and consider their own views to be the "true" right ideals, as most extreamist groups do.

But similarly the classical right view them very differently. They see them as anti-right, entierly outside of the right and not representative of it. They reject their ideals as "false".

Wether the group is outside or inclusive to the right depends entierly on who you ask.

However the left seems to have its alt-left embraces by the mainstream left far more so than the counter scenario on the right in my expiernce. Though the pattern does still apply for them as well.

@xyfdi No bots are allowed to sign upon our instant and get suspended immediately. Our Arxiv bot is the only permitted bot,

@igeljaeger No idea really. I dont recall ever seeing this brand in america. We do have similar style stuff though but the quality isnt as good imo.

The germans really got their shit on lock down when it comes to getting intoxicated!

Seems sometime today I hit 8,000 followers and QOTO hit 6,000 registered users on the same day. What a day!

@design_RG

Its also very common in the fediverse to see users come and go. They disapear for a month or even two then come back and get active again out of nowhere, really common pattern.

As a moderator this can sometimes be unsettling because you see what looks like good users constantly leaving the server. But if you just check out our active user count ratio to the total number of users, its pretty good. Showing people may not be very active but they do keep coming back.

This becomes especially poignent once you add to the fact that we as a server do not delete inactive accounts (as many others do). We have nearly 1/3rd of all registered users over the 2 years since QOTO has been online that still come back and use their accounts to post at least once every month. I'd say thats a pretty impressive retention ratio.

@users

@design_RG

Its also very common in the fediverse to see users come and go. They disapear for a month or even two then come back and get active again out of nowhere, really common pattern.

As a moderator this can sometimes be unsettling because you see what looks like good users constantly leaving the server. But if you just check out our active user count ratio to the total number of users, its pretty good. Showing people may not be very active but they do keep coming back.

@users

@design_RG

Everyone disappears from the fediverse on the holidays. Oddly in terms of users the holidays sees reverse usage statistics from a site like FB which tends to be very active.

If you look at the user bot for example you'll notice signups halved the week of christmas and are just today starting to pick back up slowly.

@users

@design_RG

Oh, shall I delete my comment?

@users

@design_RG

That spike was the rash of spam bots we got. Lasted about 30 minutes before we blacklisted the emails and managed to purge the accounts

@users

@ae Fact remains Not voting is not voting against party lines first off, so stop trying to stretch what little numbers you can, thats not helping you look objective here.

Second you can spin it however you want, you wont convince me that when 99%+ of a party is voting party lines that they are unbias.

Next "statistically significant" just means "unlikely to be random".. So all your saying is that the marginal and insufficient less than 1% difference is probably not just random error.. I mean ok.. they still have 0 credibility if all they have is a marginally insignificant 2 people voting no..

That said we are still about 4 levels deep into meta arguments on this that largely miss the main point anyway.

@ae BTW as for the majority leader being bias in addition to the democrats being bias, no argument there. IT is clear everyone is bias to a fault. The impeachment was nothing more than a deperate attempt to win an election and the republicans believe that to be true and treat it with the same unprofessional bias the democrats showed in initiating it, both groups arent looking great obviously.

@ae insignificantly less.. less than 1% so.. I mean sure, if you want to point that fact out, go for it, but it is so insignificant a number it doesnt really say anything good. It shows they follow party lines 99+%