Posts tagged: mastodon

Archiving my microblogging

I started posting on Twitter in the early 2010s; it was primarily very useless things. I unofficially left in 2018 when I joined mastodon.technology (I had a cross-poster going for a while, but mostly stopped checking Twitter). And when that shut down in late 2022, I co-created Wikis World and…

Basic anti-abuse monitoring for Mastodon

Back in February, Mastodon and the connected Fediverse faced a spam attack caused by unattended instances with an open signup policy. Bots quickly registered accounts and then sent spammy messages that were relayed through the Fediverse. It was annoying and the normal moderation tool of limiting or blocking entire instances…

Six months of Wikis World

I did a lot of new, crazy things in 2022, but by far, the most unplanned and unexpected was running a social media server for my friends. Somehow it has been six months since Taavi and I launched Wikis World, dubbed "a Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts". Given that milestone,…

Current thoughts on Mastodon

The majority of posts on Mastodon right now are about how to get started, discussions about various features or making fun of the dumpster fire that is the birdsite. This is mostly unavoidable as new people sign up, but I've tried to keep using Mastodon as an actual social network…