Notices by Fosstodon (fosstodon@fosstodon.org)

We have launched the survey for our second round of donations - this time we will be donating $100 to 2 separate open source projects.

We've managed to improve the submission process this time around by using @LimeSurvey.

Please do take the time to add a submission if you get a couple of minutes. The list will then be sent to our Patrons for the final vote.

https://donations.fosstodon.org/index.php/241929?lang=en

https://patreon.com/fosstodon

Just a reminder folks: we've now got our community hub up and running. It's got a community blog, our CoC, details on how to support Fosstodon, details about our team, and more.

Commujity blog: https://hub.fosstodon.org/about
https://hub.fosstodon.org/become-a-guest-writer/

Support us: https://hub.fosstodon.org/support-us

CoC:
https://hub.fosstodon.org/code-of-conduct

The team:
https://hub.fosstodon.org/the-team

Also, if you want to know how we're using your kind donations, details can are here:
https://hub.fosstodon.org/funding-usage

Ok folks, we have finished working on our #FosstodonHub - if you want to sign up for a guest writer's account on the hub, and start contributing to our community blog, you can do so here:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/about

We're not finished with the hub yet - more will be added to it over the coming days, so watch this space!

Our admin, @mike had a great idea - to open up the Fosstodon Hub to our users, so they can contribute blog posts.

Maybe you want to talk about a project you're interested in, or something you're working on, or maybe just tell people why you use FOSS in a more long-form fashion.

Think of it kinda like a mini-medium for Fosstodon users.

This post is to gauge interest before we start developing something. Would anyone be interested in contributing to, or consuming, such content?

We wrote a post about why we decided to go English only on Fosstodon. If you're interested in a long-form explaination as to why we did it, check out this post:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/why-fosstodon-is-an-english-only-instance/

Friendly reminder to everyone on Fosstodon - this is an English-speaking instance, so we would request that all Toots be posted in English please.

This isn't because we don't like other languages, but our staff can only speak English, so there is no way of moderating posts in other languages.

Unfortunately, we will need to remove any non-English posts we discover. We're sorry if this causes any frustration with our awesome members. 👍

Folks, we have had a number of new patrons join our ranks, thank you so much for the support.

If you pledged $5/month or more, please remember to drop us an email to mail@fosstodon.org so we can give you your forwarding mailbox, if you want it.

https://patreon.com/fosstodon

Unfortunately, Fosstodon will no longer be accepting donations via LiberaPay.

We want to thank everyone who has donated via LiberaPay over the last few months, but due to the current instability with their services, we will be suspending donations until further notice.

If you still want to donate to Fosstodon, you can do so via Patreon and PayPal:

https://patreon.com/fosstodon
https://paypal.me/fosstodon

Thanks to some great feedback from @maloki, we have updated our CoC to be more clear on what we will do with NSK content.

https://conduct.fosstodon.org/#sexandnudity

PLEASE READ...

Hey Folks! We have noticed that there has been an increase in NSFW content that's being federated with #Fosstodon.

Per our Code of Conduct (https://conduct.fosstodon.org) we have globally blocked those accounts.

If this affects you then we apologise, but we have to ensure Fosstodon is welcoming for as many members as possible; and having porn visible in our federated timeline detracts from that.

Thank you all for the continued support - you're all awesome!

Sorry folks, we had some outage due to DB issues. Normal service has resumed!

Lots of new members signing up. Have we been added to a post or something, or have bots started to discover us?

If you just signed up, please say hi using the #Introductions hash tag. 👍

If you want to support the project, we have a patron page: https://patreon.com/fosstodon

If you prefer a one off donation, you can do so via PayPal: https://paypal.me/fosstodon

If you prefer not to donate at all, that's cool too - we still love having you around.

We may also setup a LibrePay page if people would prefer?

Thanks for the support guys, you're all awesome!