homegrown (@homegrown@social.growyourown.services)
Reminder to Mastodon admins that you can give yourself and your staff fun profile badge names. You don't have to be "owner" or "mod", you can set these titles to anything you like.
How to change your badge names:
1. Log in through an account with power to create roles (usually Owners)
2. Go to Preferences > Administration > Roles
3. To edit an existing role click the "Edit" button next to it
4. Change the name (and colour if you want to)
5. Click "Save Changes"
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MOULE (@MOULE@mastodon.moule.world)
Content warning:CW quote boost: Sign-up email providers Fediverse admins should block (some have hateful domain names)
Re: https://techhub.social/@Raccoon/113800359321708734
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sb (@sb@metroholografix.ca)
This #mastodon #instance, metroholografix.com has been running for about 2 weeks.
Thanks to 2 relays, and a post that got boosted 520 times in 5 days, my server has federated with over 5,500 other instances!
I'm rather impressed! Thank you to everyone who #boosted!
By contrast, .social has about 80,000 connections.
You can see how many instances your instance is federated with by visiting your instance URL with this pasted at the end: /api/v1/instance/peers
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admin (@admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net)
Sometime at the beginning of December, all of a sudden, traffic to and from my little single-user instance dropped to nil. The Federated Timeline, which used to fly by much too quickly, now barely moves at all.
I've checked my relays - both of them state they're running fine and no filtering to me or my instance.
I've kept my code up to date - no security issues with my instance that I am aware of.
So I need to ask the questions:
1) Is the badplace thing back?
2) Have my disagreements in discussions with other admins over whether moderation should be global or local landed me on some other "naughty list" I am unaware of? If so, what's this one called?
3) Has the way smaller instances interact with the greater Fediverse changed in some way I missed?
Thanks in advance for any light you all may be able to shed on this issue.
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FediTips (@FediTips@social.growyourown.services)
Have your bookmarks been mysteriously disappearing? Have older posts and replies from other servers vanished? If so, it may mean your Mastodon server has an incorrect admin setting.
If this has happened to you, ask your server admin to make sure that they have blanked their “remote content retention period” / “content cache retention period” setting.
There's more info for admins about this setting in the guide at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-admins-leave-the-content-cache-retention-period-blank
#FediTips #Mastodon #FediAdmin
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FediThing (@FediThing@social.chinwag.org)
Dear god people, look at what Meta is now saying:
"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation"
...look at it. This is 1930s stuff 😞
If you haven't defederated Meta/Threads yet, now is absolutely the perfect time to do so.
#Threads #Meta #Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin
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xuid0 (@xuid0@hardened.computer)
Thursday 9 January 2025.
This instance blocks all accounts & content from the following instances & federated timelines:
1/ bne.social
2/ aus.social
3/ threads.net
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hansaplast42 (@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtf)
threads.net von limited auf suspended umgestellt
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bitpickup (@bitpickup@troet.cafe)
#fediAdmin #fediTips #fediVerse
To begin with I wonder what happens if our sites and profiles display CC-BY-SA-NC as #copyright notice. Any use by #AI scrapers should become illegal and indemnisation inforcable.
Also if you search for #robotsTXT in google, this is what you get.
> Ignoring robots.txt instructions can result in your scraping activities being considered unethical or even illegal.
@maxschrems
@markus_netzpolitik
@ankedb
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cadusilva (@cadusilva@bolha.one)
Users can set the post privacy to "followers only" but it's not always desirable to use such restrictive setting.
Some instance admins can't do a thing as they may not know how or may be using managed services like MastoHost.
@nixCraft: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113793022089387526
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innkeeper (@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online)
Viceversa, if any user would be against this decision, the staff is open for discussing it through Mastodon/Discord/Matrix. Should this not be enough, I completely understand if you would leave The Gamer's Tavern and there won't be any hard feelings.
If you're going to reply to this thread remember: "In a world where you can be anything, choose to be gentle"
Alex out.
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#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin
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innkeeper (@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online)
We're in for one of the darkest periods in the history of manking, with most of the world political parties turning to the far right wing, and for the little we can, we will always make our users the top priority.
In case you would not feel safe anymore in your Mastodon home, know that there will always be a seat for you at The Gamer's Tavern.
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#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin
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