Always interesting to see people move away from COTS expecting the same features they like and expecting maybe a new "grass is greener" thing. Local timelines are just a mess on the big ones and alot of the small ones are quiet from using vanilla mastodon so no boosts on the local timeline.
Things like auto spam detection and Translation and also video and audio are fairly unique its actually what you should be looking at when picking an instance. You can generally interact with the fediverse from most instances. Anyway I try. I guess I just dont like seeing people migrate even though I know it could be for any other reason
I've seen more posts about the fediverse's spam problem than I have actual spam posts. From this I infer that the TopSpicy mods are doing a bang-up job.
We're still quite far back on our donation goal this month. If I have to roll over costs to the next month I can for only so long until I have to think about closing #Cupofteasocial up.
Luckily last months bill was the most expensive. Going forward its either remains the same or goes down and looking at 2 weeks usage this month it will be cheaper.
So If you can donate £2 or so it would really help keep things running and afloat. Ive done alot of work on security and spam this month so I do try to look after the place.
Just noticed on the back end we are battling the spam due to the federated timelines sheer amount of it coming in over loads of servers. Im trying to suspend or limit the instances depending on if they are just setup for the spam or the spam itself is on active servers already. Its alot of work. Things may be a bit slow for the moment #Cupofteasocial
Had a dream we were being overrun with spam. Woke up to find an attempt of one account signing up with the spam that's currently happening elsewheres email domain and blocked it. Not on my watch!
Also updated the servers just now so the account page is now upto date and new. Along with more critical bug fixes.
Massive Update for security patches and general scss layout stuff that was merged before it to #Cupofteasocial which brings us up to date and all patched up.
Might code in some gif support from tenor or giphy since i use them daily but im enjoying the work listening to vinyl at the appropriate volume anyway, Thanks everyone !
Added brid.gy and Snarfed.org to suspend as its taking posts from our users against permission to bridge to bluesky. It should be Opt-in not opt-out and in doing so breaks GDPR #Cupofteasocial
#mugshot #Today
Tuesdays offering is Tusky!!
My #Cupofteasocial mug to brighten your day!
Cheery in yellow 💛
Hope everyone is having a lovely start 😊
I'll be toddling off to the charity shop this afternoon 🥰🥰
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Good morning you wonderful people 💖💖
A mug with a message #Today
Something I try to live by, and sometimes we all need a bit of kindness,
So I'm sending some kindness your way this morning 💕💕💕
It can all be done through Ko-fi to keep things together and you can use stripe for cards or Paypal. I'll also say ive changed the minimum donation to £5 as the fees are killer on anything lower and I dont see much of it after.
Thanks to everyone that donates to keep everything running smoothly.
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Good morning lovely people 💕
It's Friday again, welcome to the weekend 😁
Pretty William Morris mug for you today.
This afternoon will be spent at the
'Emporium of shiny things' having a chatter with the lovely people 💖
Sending you all love and hugs for a good day 💖💖