Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Hi folks, here's our end-of-year update for the server on Open Collective: <a href="https://opencollective.com/urbanistssocial/updates/hey-whats-up-date" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opencollective.com/urbanistsso</span><span class="invisible">cial/updates/hey-whats-up-date</span></a></p>
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Hello! We’re the account for the Urbanists.Social admins. We use this for announcements, boosting cool posts from our server, and following admins from other servers to keep up with #fediblock.
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Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Quick update on the recent domain blocks: one of our users made a post that made it onto some not-so-nice parts of the fediverse. Most of the bad instances we had blocked, but four of them got through. </p><p>Please see recent posts for the instances that have been blocked. Don't go hunting for the bad posts. </p><p>I (Sam) will be watching much more closely over the next few days for reports and the ban-hammer will be MUCH more frequent. Please report if you see ANYTHING that breaks the rules.</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Two new domain blocks on urbanists.social:</p><p>- mostr.pub - Unless y'all absolutely need to use this Nostr bridge, it's suspended because a Nazi harassed our users.<br />- shortstacksran.ch - Lots of racism, user names that are just slurs, federates with poa.st</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FediBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FediBlock</span></a></p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>New domain block: blocked these two instances because of abuse of the report functionality and racism. Would highly recommend blocking on sight. </p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FediBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FediBlock</span></a></p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Legs hurting from biking</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>What are some things the server could improve on? What would be good or nice to have?</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Good evening urbanists.social, here are your stats for the last month:</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Per user vote, threads.net is now limited 🎊🥳</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Hey folks! So sorry about the vote, did not realize we were splitting the vote! After looking at the results, it looks like a majority of users support some form of moderation of Threads, so threads.net will be limited effective immediately. We’ll do a follow-up poll about limitation vs suspension.</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Thank you! We’re thankful to all the users who help sustain us financially. Our finances are completely open and viewable by anyone here: <a href="https://opencollective.com/urbanistssocial" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opencollective.com/urbanistsso</span><span class="invisible">cial</span></a></p><p>Keep in mind that we currently receive $200-ish/mo in recurring donations, and that our monthly costs are around $100-150/mo. If you can’t afford to or don’t want to donate, it’s totally fine! We have months of runway, so there’s no pressure at all 😁 <a href="https://urbanists.social/@noneck/110657295843349742" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">urbanists.social/@noneck/11065</span><span class="invisible">7295843349742</span></a></p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Urbanists.social users: should we block threads.net (Meta’s new ActivityPub app)?</p><p>We have two options:<br />- Limit them (meaning you can still follow people there)<br />- Suspend them (you won’t be able to interact with them at all)</p><p>Keep in mind that regardless of the outcome, if the app has insufficient moderation and / or allows hate speech it will be limited or suspended under our defederation policy. <a href="https://urbanists.social/@miyelsh/110656484360726169" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">urbanists.social/@miyelsh/1106</span><span class="invisible">56484360726169</span></a></p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Cool, Lemmy instance it is! <a href="https://urbanists.social/@admins/110640954318369380" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">urbanists.social/@admins/11064</span><span class="invisible">0954318369380</span></a></p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Hi folks! If you're new to Mastodon and have a question, write a post with <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/MastodonHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonHelp</span></a> in it! The community will see it and help you out :)</p><p>Welcome to Mastodon!</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>If you’re new to the server say hi! It’s great to have y’all here!</p><p>Let us know if you need any help by DM-ing us here.</p><p>And if you’re feeling generous, feel free to donate to us here: <a href="https://opencollective.com/urbanistssocial" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opencollective.com/urbanistsso</span><span class="invisible">cial</span></a></p><p>All donations are tax deductible in the US!</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Ooops sorry forgot to switch back to my personal account</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Also exploring the possibility of doing a migration to Akkomma so that 1) we can self-host it and 2) we don’t have to do any operations stuff. Goal would be for it to be 100% seamless.</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Should we set up a Lemmy instance now that Reddit people are migrating</p><p>We have enough money to do this</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Reminder: if you see something, say something! Use the report button! Tag us if you have problems!</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>UPDATE: We are in the middle of YET ANOTHER mass Twitter migration. Please hold onto your seatbelts. Bumped up server capacity. Mention us if you have any problems.</p>
Urbanists.Social Admins<p>Hi folks! Started using Elk as my Mastodon client so I (Sam) will be checking this account more frequently (was a lot more inconvenient to do before because Mastodon doesn't natively support multiple accounts).</p>
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