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Oh HEY and on this slightly earlier leaderboard, we made it to the top!

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113472523807404226

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Oh HEY and on this slightly earlier leaderboard, we made it to the top!

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113472523807404226

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Good going again, friends! Very appreciative of this community and our largely pro-social fediverse conduct. Y’all make it a joy to hang out here and do the occasional tea brewing and tidying up.

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113475590892392161

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Good going again, friends! Very appreciative of this community and our largely pro-social fediverse conduct. Y’all make it a joy to hang out here and do the occasional tea brewing and tidying up.

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113475590892392161

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Our invite code is refreshed again!

It's a sunny but chilly day here over Proprietary's coffee mug. I would looooove to be curled up with knitting and a book and I'm the kind of introvert who'd love company sitting on the other end of the sofa reading, too.

Go find us some new Cafe friends, stay warm, write cool stuff.

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Our invite code is refreshed again!

It's a sunny but chilly day here over Proprietary's coffee mug. I would looooove to be curled up with knitting and a book and I'm the kind of introvert who'd love company sitting on the other end of the sofa reading, too.

Go find us some new Cafe friends, stay warm, write cool stuff.

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@andytinkham hey, Andy. It's really tough for us to troubleshoot individual posts and boosts/reach/distribution. And 10x more tough with a 3rd-party app, I'm afraid.

When you run into this, is there any way you can check your timeline on the Advanced Web interface, and first, see if the boost happened as expected - and Mona just blurped an error maybe because of a timeout/connection. Second, if it DIDN'T happen, can you locate the post on the home TL in the web app, and try boosting?

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@andytinkham hey, Andy. It's really tough for us to troubleshoot individual posts and boosts/reach/distribution. And 10x more tough with a 3rd-party app, I'm afraid.

When you run into this, is there any way you can check your timeline on the Advanced Web interface, and first, see if the boost happened as expected - and Mona just blurped an error maybe because of a timeout/connection. Second, if it DIDN'T happen, can you locate the post on the home TL in the web app, and try boosting?

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Also, happy Fall Back time, North America. There is a new code up for the week.

As we always ask - invite along all the friends you can find, we just don't want the door left wiiiiide open in the cold. Cheers!

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Also, happy Fall Back time, North America. There is a new code up for the week.

As we always ask - invite along all the friends you can find, we just don't want the door left wiiiiide open in the cold. Cheers!

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Hello all! The Fedi is dealing with another wave of ... apparently a bunch of teenagers trying to spam Fediverse servers with a QR code that takes you to a rival's Discord.

This is the same MO as another wave earlier this year.

I'm defederating a number of the compromised servers that people have not been able to get control of yet (some were problematic or abandoned to begin with) and suspending individual accounts that got loose on servers that are otherwise adequately attended.

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Hello all! The Fedi is dealing with another wave of ... apparently a bunch of teenagers trying to spam Fediverse servers with a QR code that takes you to a rival's Discord.

This is the same MO as another wave earlier this year.

I'm defederating a number of the compromised servers that people have not been able to get control of yet (some were problematic or abandoned to begin with) and suspending individual accounts that got loose on servers that are otherwise adequately attended.

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Our code is again updated in our announcement!

Please go forth and find a nice new cafe friend to come in and warm up with us.

Code good to November - eep! November! - 3rd, or 25 new users.

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Our code is again updated in our announcement!

Please go forth and find a nice new cafe friend to come in and warm up with us.

Code good to November - eep! November! - 3rd, or 25 new users.

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https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113347952997665626

Hey, we're 2nd from the top again for alt-text usage - good for you, team!

Although what is it with the British Isles over there, if it's not toot.wales beating us it's ... mastodon.scot!

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https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth Check/113347952997665626

Hey, we're 2nd from the top again for alt-text usage - good for you, team!

Although what is it with the British Isles over there, if it's not toot.wales beating us it's ... mastodon.scot!

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Our invite code is renewed again, have at it! Find friends, bring 'em over for tea & a book.

If you're not "from here" and can't see the Announcement, just tag me (or anyone you chat with at our domain).

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Our invite code is renewed again, have at it! Find friends, bring 'em over for tea & a book.

If you're not "from here" and can't see the Announcement, just tag me (or anyone you chat with at our domain).

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I should show you guys some stuff more often.

Here's our Dashboard. Stats are based on a rolling month. yeah... we've had a bit of a spam wave and then some. Still, not too bad given what bigger instances get hit with!

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I should show you guys some stuff more often.

Here's our Dashboard. Stats are based on a rolling month. yeah... we've had a bit of a spam wave and then some. Still, not too bad given what bigger instances get hit with!

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A view of the Mastodon Dashboard, showing New and Active users, "Interactions", reports opened, and reports resolved. 

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We appreciate your patience - you, our wandering.shop users, and you, our wider fediverse communities - with this slower approach. We feel it is ultimately more effective to take any possible opportunity to call community members in, not out, and to reach for accountability before sanction.

Thank you for your reports and outreach, and thank you for your support of the moderators here. We will see that this situation is resolved in the next few days. G’night for now.

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We appreciate your patience - you, our wandering.shop users, and you, our wider fediverse communities - with this slower approach. We feel it is ultimately more effective to take any possible opportunity to call community members in, not out, and to reach for accountability before sanction.

Thank you for your reports and outreach, and thank you for your support of the moderators here. We will see that this situation is resolved in the next few days. G’night for now.

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This approach gives us the most opportunity for learning and improving together, and avoiding such situations recurring.

We acknowledge, though, that this takes more time and work than just immediately deleting posts or suspending a user. It means we may appear to not be acting on a matter which clearly requires action to most reasonable people affected by the situation.

This is not the case. Not usually, and not today in this particular case. 5/(hopefully)6

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This approach gives us the most opportunity for learning and improving together, and avoiding such situations recurring.

We acknowledge, though, that this takes more time and work than just immediately deleting posts or suspending a user. It means we may appear to not be acting on a matter which clearly requires action to most reasonable people affected by the situation.

This is not the case. Not usually, and not today in this particular case. 5/(hopefully)6

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Our moderation principles here are that we will take the minimum necessary action to avoid, mitigate, or remedy any harm presented by content which we host. In the case of content posted by a Wandering.shop account, we will begin by reaching out to the user to make sure we all understand the context and intent and where the situation took a turn. We will start with asking that they revise or remove post(s) themselves before we proceed to moderator-enacted consequences. 4/?

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Our moderation principles here are that we will take the minimum necessary action to avoid, mitigate, or remedy any harm presented by content which we host. In the case of content posted by a Wandering.shop account, we will begin by reaching out to the user to make sure we all understand the context and intent and where the situation took a turn. We will start with asking that they revise or remove post(s) themselves before we proceed to moderator-enacted consequences. 4/?

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Mastodon does not show us details of the reporting account, so we have no way to acknowledge a report from another community without a lot of effort to identify and engage with each server’s admin, and we don’t have the resources to do so at this scale. Hence the breaking protocol to publicly, but protectively, acknowledge this.

The post in question, to be clear, was highly problematic, though the poster had no malicious intent and was not attempting to target anyone in particular. 3/?

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Mastodon does not show us details of the reporting account, so we have no way to acknowledge a report from another community without a lot of effort to identify and engage with each server’s admin, and we don’t have the resources to do so at this scale. Hence the breaking protocol to publicly, but protectively, acknowledge this.

The post in question, to be clear, was highly problematic, though the poster had no malicious intent and was not attempting to target anyone in particular. 3/?

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It’s very rare for us to get reports about our own users, and rarer still that we find them actionable under our rules or Code of Conduct. It’s also almost unheard of that we get more than a single report on a post. Soooo… we had something posted today that shifted our scale on that, and collected a usual week’s worth of complaints on a single post.

I’m sharing this without repeating details, because we want to acknowledge a significant number of affected people raised a legitimate concern. 2/?

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It’s very rare for us to get reports about our own users, and rarer still that we find them actionable under our rules or Code of Conduct. It’s also almost unheard of that we get more than a single report on a post. Soooo… we had something posted today that shifted our scale on that, and collected a usual week’s worth of complaints on a single post.

I’m sharing this without repeating details, because we want to acknowledge a significant number of affected people raised a legitimate concern. 2/?

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Hello, world.

At Wandering.shop we do not usually directly discuss our reports and moderation decisions publicly, and we rarely provide feedback to a reporter, unless we have a situation we can mediate between two of our own users - and those will be handled privately. We sometimes reach out to another instance admin if we feel collaboration will clarify or de-escalate a concern.

Today we saw a new precedent set though, with a significant number of reports having come in about one post. 1/?

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Hello, world.

At Wandering.shop we do not usually directly discuss our reports and moderation decisions publicly, and we rarely provide feedback to a reporter, unless we have a situation we can mediate between two of our own users - and those will be handled privately. We sometimes reach out to another instance admin if we feel collaboration will clarify or de-escalate a concern.

Today we saw a new precedent set though, with a significant number of reports having come in about one post. 1/?