Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 29

You can tell when I'm using Pinafore as a Windows PWA because my posts have tons of spelling errors. Hoping spellcheck comes in the next release 🤞

@anthracite Yeah if toot.cafe ever got too big, I would probably shut down registration permanently. I don't want it to be so big that I have to start thinking about how to automate moderation.

@freemancw I kinda think that if Mastodon were truly attacked at scale by spammers, most instances would just switch to an invite system. Not sure though; this thing is evolving naturally. :)

I still haven't reopened registration for toot.cafe, but maybe I should assuming the spambots are gone. I still need to update to the latest version of Mastodon with the email validation stuff though.

On toot.cafe I basically handle all the moderation myself (we used to have a team of 4, but that was back during the April 2017 wave when things were nuts). So far the workload has been okay: a couple reports per week, mostly for remote accounts.

A couple weekends ago though, there was a huge spam influx that caught me off-gaurd. I had to suspend ~50 accounts, and it was a lot of manual effort. I take my time, since suspending local accounts means those accounts' content is deleted forever.

"The Scale Is Just Unfathomable" by Tarleton Gillespie https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/

I'm still interested to see how the fediverse's moderation-per-instance model can really scale. So far it works okay, but I think overall we're still a small community (or a handful of small communities), which makes things easier.

@aardrian It's only like 10 floppy disks, no big deal… ;)

@ada I've been there. :( Hope you feel better soon.

"Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?" by John Herrman https://nyti.ms/2Gnvh9e

"[T]he Light Phone is marketed as 'a phone that actually respects you.' It’s a manifestly absurd series of words, but I suspect more than a few of us understand perfectly what it’s supposed to mean."

Some pretty reasonable objections to the Chrome autoplay intervention (birdsite link): https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/996859737693212672

Support @Gargron & mastodon on Patreon. They are doing some amazing work!

https://patreon.com/mastodon

@peter @flakoot Yup, the Web Summit should be in Seattle again this year! Not sure when it will be yet, but stay tuned. Samsung representation would be great. 😁

@flakoot @peter Rust is definitely being run somewhere here... 😏