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Admin teams, note that agentmail.to email domains are ...

2026-05-06T01:57:33Z

Admin teams, note that agentmail.to email domains are "inboxes for 'AI' agents" and ban/suspend any registration requests accordingly.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #AI #slop #LLM #FediBlock

Only those followers using mastodon.cloud.

2026-04-19T04:44:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…n4ne
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Only those followers using mastodon.cloud.

📣 FLOSS.social will be defederating with mastodon.cloud on ...

2026-04-19T02:58:33Z

📣 FLOSS.social will be defederating with mastodon.cloud on 2026-05-01, joining with many other servers in taking this approach.

☹️ This server has been on a "limit" status for some time due to ongoing spam waves as well as lack of maintenance and moderation. After the 1st, all contact will be suspended.

☑️ FLOSS.social users should review their connections and make contact with them ASAP, and should encourage those contacts to relcoate to a maintained instance.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

👀 FYI: Effective this month, our IP blocks for Anthropic & ...

2026-03-30T17:50:54Z

👀 FYI: Effective this month, our IP blocks for Anthropic & OpenAI network spaces have been refreshed and updated to minimize those organisations' abilities to interact with content posted here. Please continue to report any cases of susptected network abuse for review and action. (1/2)

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote ...

2025-11-06T16:57:21Z

We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

💡 Unlike other #Fediverse servers, we didn't need to ...

2025-08-09T23:23:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…4x93
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💡 Unlike other #Fediverse servers, we didn't need to "wait and see" before preventing #Meta from using our community's content to train their #LLMs. When corporations show you who they are, believe them.

#Threads #Facebook #FediPact

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Please don't entrust truly private communications to any ...

2025-05-04T21:38:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…mxnf
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Please don't entrust truly private communications to any social network, especially Mastodon servers. (Even our own.)

https://www.slashgear.com/1090436/mastodon-dms-are-very-different-to-twitter-and-that-could-get-embarrassing/

Our 1000-active-user cap for FLOSS.social is still in effect, and ...

2025-04-27T19:33:21Z

Our 1000-active-user cap for FLOSS.social is still in effect, and will soon again be reached as we welcome a new wave of community members.

This number is determined as the mean (average) between the "active in last month" and "six months" from the data at: https://floss.social/nodeinfo/2.0

Small servers make for good communities and good federation.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

☮️ :trans_heart: :freesoftware:

2025-04-25T20:32:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…fk8r
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☮️ :trans_heart: :freesoftware:

"Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because ...

2025-04-25T05:39:48Z

"Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all." — Fred Hampton

#fascism #protest #humanRights #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #Fosstodon

Normally, we get one or two of these problem reports per year, ...

2025-02-21T14:50:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…hjsw
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Normally, we get one or two of these problem reports per year, but today we got about 150 tickets and counting. :mastodon_oops:

https://floss.social/@admin/114041817627451631

Thanks for reporting; this has been fixed. There is a small ...

2025-02-21T12:13:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…f6r3
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Thanks for reporting; this has been fixed.

There is a small number of hashtags that trended early in the history of the "trending hashtags", and not since then, that had a misconfiguration applied to them some years ago.

Because Mastodon has still not improved the trending hashtags admin feature since then, there are no admin tools to manage hashtags that aren't trending, so the only way we can (quickly) resolve this scenario is once they are discovered and reported.

✋🏾 We'll never be ad-supported. #Fediverse

2025-01-24T21:45:08Z

✋🏾 We'll never be ad-supported.

#Fediverse

Our #FediPact :FediPact: actions timeline: June 2023: ...

2025-01-14T14:16:11Z

Our #FediPact :FediPact: actions timeline:

June 2023: Preemptively blocked federation with #Meta #Facebook and #Threads. We also didn't attend any secret meetings with them or sign their NDAs.

July 2023: Blocked their IP networks from accessing our instance.

💡 Because protecting human rights shouldn't ever be something up for a vote.

As posted earlier in our Matrix channel, our upstream hosting ...

2024-12-03T22:23:23Z

As posted earlier in our Matrix channel, our upstream hosting provider just completed urgent/unscheduled maintenance on the rack housing our database server in the past hour. This maintenance is complete and all systems are again functional. Thanks for your patience during this time!

The old “Block notifications from non-followers”, “Block ...

2024-10-08T19:03:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…u6z9
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The old “Block notifications from non-followers”, “Block notifications from people you don't follow” and “Block direct messages from people you don't follow” notification settings have been replaced by a new set of settings found directly in the notification column.

You can now separately filter or drop notifications from people you don't follow, people who don't follow you, accounts created within the past 30 days, as well as unsolicited private mentions, & accounts limited by the moderation.

⚠️ We're continually monitoring the spam situation from ...

2024-10-08T17:46:50Z

⚠️ We're continually monitoring the spam situation from certain Mastodon servers, but you can adjust your account settings to avoid seeing this type of message altogether.

Go to https://floss.social/notifications and click the settings gear icon, then adjust notifications from people you don't follow.

#MastoAdmin #spam

:trans_heart: The FLOSS.social community does not condone ...

2024-08-07T21:44:01Z

:trans_heart: The FLOSS.social community does not condone transphobia or any other activity, behavior, or statement aimed at the destruction of universal human rights. Such behavior violates our Community Code of Conduct and may result in sanctions of accounts and/or network federation. We take such violations seriously, and respond to reports quickly and firmly.

#FediBlock #FediBlockMeta