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Just a little note about #QOTO bots.

We just revived our old bots over at QOTO. You can find a list of the bots at the end of this post

One note: The arXiv bots are very noisy. As such we set them up to only go off once a day, in the middle of the night when the server usage is minimal. This should reduce any spam and not bury the posts of other users in the timeline.

@time - Toots the time every 15 minutes, unlisted so wont show int he home timeline unless you follow it.

@HN - Posts hacker news every 3 hours except when the server isn't active.

@arxiv_stats - Posts new arXiv papers on Statistics

@arxiv_bio - Posts new arXiv papers on Quantitative Biology

@arxiv_math - Posts new arXiv papers on Mathematics

@arxiv_eess - Posts new arXiv papers on Electrical Engineering & Systems Science

@arxiv_physics - Posts new arXiv papers on Physics

@arxiv_stats - Posts new arXiv papers on Statistics.

@starfleet - an auto-follow bot that follows people from around the fediverse in order to increase QOTO's federation.

For all those who feel this would be a bad idea; it would be really helpful if you spoke up and expressed why you feel it might be a bad idea. The reasons it might be a good idea are obvious but the reasons it might be a bad idea are less obvious. As such it would be really helpful for moving the conversation forward.

Would you like to see ArXiv and other non-commercial STEM-specific bots brought back online here at #QOTO.

It has been offline for some time but I still have the scripts to bring it online. You can see an example of the type of content it used to post here:

https://qoto.org/web/accounts/8917

[ ] Hell, yea!
[ ] Nah, too much noise!
[ ] Sure, I'll block them.
[ ] No opinion.

We just fixed Latex Math based rendering on the #QOTO discourse server ( https://discourse.qoto.org )

You can now insert Latex based math into your posts on Discourse in the same way you can on the QOTO mastodon server!

This is the last major bug we have observed across all the new QOTO services we brought up this month. We will keep an eye on things but everything appears fully functional now!

What other services would you like to see hosted free on #QOTO?

[ ] WriteFreely
[ ] PixelFed
[ ] Wiki.js
[ ] Nothing, we have enough!

The #QOTO source code link in the footer did not update in our last code update as expected. The issue has since been fixed in the source code and will be applied in the next version bump.

In the meantime if anyone wants access to the QOTO's variant of the mastodon source code it can be found here:

https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto

Second Update, this time to the CSS is done. #QOTO should be back to looking as nice as always.

MathJax is temporarily down as I fix a issue with it. I will announce when it is back up. Might be later today.

Shortly #QOTO will do a minor update to fix some of the CSS issues introduced int he latest update. Down time should be unnoticeable but just want to warn everyone just in case.

#QOTO is back up safely post-upgrade. Going to cleanup some CSS that ooks a bit off since the upgrade but otherwise everything seems to be working.

QOTO is now on the QOTO variant of v2.9.3 of Mastodon. Enjoy!

#fediverse #mastodon

The #QOTO funkwhale instance just surpassed 200 gigs last night. Thats a lot of audio! Thanks to the QOTO community for all your contributions

Signups are open and free here: https://audio.qoto.org

Interesting fact of the day: Diamonds are flammable