Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 36

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I also welcome everyone coming in from #TwitterEvacuationDay today. I hope you find what you seek on the fediverse, be it friends, an audience, a ring of power, the Chaos Emeralds or whatever else. 👍

I wish you all a happy new year! 2017 was amazing for Mastodon and I hope 2018 will be even better. Cheers 🎇

@jerry @tinker I'm against automatically updating instance-wide blocklists. Too much potential for abuse. Like the Randi Harper thing but even worse.

It's not often that I ask anyone to go on :birdsite:, but this is for a good cause. If you've still got an account and you're willing, help me get this tweet out there, about #TwitterEvacuationDay tomorrow: https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/946899893309923328

Put the data kindly provided by @eliotberriot and cleaned the anomalies (drops and spikes) out. Mastodon fediverse growth in 2017:

@clacke @loke @paulfree14 @mairin They are convinced (without checking) that Mastodon outside of counter.social is riddled with bots and Russian propaganda. When I pointed out this isn't so, they reasoned it must be so, otherwise Jester wouldn't have had to put up those measures.

Looking forward to having more stats about active users on the fediverse. Created this #PR: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/6125

Can anyone think of any negative drawbacks if there's a public API that announces which other domains a Mastodon server is aware of?

I just thought if such an API existed and the responses could be aggregated, you could visualize the whole fediverse properly - not just by nodes of varying sizes but by nodes with edges

What this means in practice is that some branding was slapped on the frontpage, profiles were broken to be unviewable while logged out, federation with other Mastodon nodes was broken or disabled, and IP addresses of countries like Russia, Iran and China were added to their Cloudflare block settings.

This might be important for other Mastodon admins so I think at least a summary is necessary.

Yesterday my 🐦 account for Mastodon was dragged into a discussion about counter.social. That is a Mastodon instance/fork that claims to be "hardened" against "hostile nations".

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"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain" https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100

ICE approves plan to separate children from their parents at border http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366131-dhs-could-approve-policy-to-separate-families-at-border-report

I wonder what their Nürnberg Trials will be called when it's time for ICE. And I hope their employees don't get off on "I was just following orders" because they could strike or quit anytime.

Echo chambers are an integral part of my favourite musicians. Guitar sounds like ass without some proper reverb :thinkhappy:

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A lot of folks' fear is that when Mastodon grows it'll absorb bad people. I'm gonna say this. I think even if Mastodon literally grows to the size of current Twitter, the world will be better off overall just because of how Mastodon is structured and what values it represents and what tools it provides for dealing with those problems.