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- That news is not "too important for a content warning".
- AI is not a replacement for good alt text.
- Your personal beef should not be a public event.
- An dozen extra hashtags won't help your visibility.
- The numbers don't matter. No, not even those.
- Nazis won't help grow the network, even if they're popular.
- Being weird is not the same as being bad.
- People are complex. You can't (usually) judge someone's entire moral character from just a screenshots.
- Accusations aren't proof, explanations aren't apologies.
- Popular users aren't above moderation.
- The block button is always justified, and no word is too sanctified for a personal mute. No one is entitled to your attention.
- Free speech doesn't apply on social media.

I wish fedi would stop turning into Twitter.

I've worn a trans ribbon every day since Trump took office. Sometimes it's scary, and sometimes I hide it for safety reasons, but it's always on my outfit somewhere.

As things have gotten more dangerous, I've considered taking it off. It's tempting to go stealth or even back in the closet entirely, but that wouldn't be fair to myself.

I'd also miss out on the good moments, like today. I was at a yard sale this morning, and the seller's kid was hanging around to help answer questions and carry stuff. They kept staring at me to the point I got uncomfortable and kept my distance, but eventually they walked over to say hi. It turned out they'd seen my ribbon and wanted to compliment it!

Now I may be reading into it, but I got the impression they were scared to say it in front of their mom. They waited until she'd gone inside, and then kept checking to make sure no one else was nearby. I think my defiant visibility did just what I hoped - showed someone that trans people aren't gone, and we're not going away.

So I'll keep wearing my ribbon for as long as I can, because visibility counts. Even if it doesn't make any difference in the grand scheme of things, it can be the most important thing for someone who just needs to know they're not alone.

Hi friends, this is a notice that Enby.Life will cease support for all email services on July 27, 2025 (one month from today). SendGrid, our email provider, is discontinuing the free tier that we rely on for service. As I don't have the funds for a paid email plan, this will result in the loss of all email-related functionality for Enby.Life.

This includes:
- Password reset emails.
- Account login warnings.
- Notification emails (if enabled).
- Abuse report notifications (for moderators).

For notifications and login warnings, you can enable push notifications as an alternative. These are supported by all major browsers and platforms, including desktop devices and mobile phones.

I don't have a good replacement for the password reset system. For now, just contact me off-site if a reset is needed. Consider picking a secret "code phrase" and uploading it as a text file into your account drive. Our staff will ask you to verify this phrase to verify any requests to access your account, which should help keep things secure.

For everything else, I'm exploring the webhooks system as a replacement. Misskey supports a fairly powerful system of global and user-level webhooks, but they aren't compatible with any common systems. It may be possible to introduce Discord compatibility with a patch, which would make them far more usable.

I'm very sorry about this, and I know it's inconvenient. Hopefully it won't be permanent, but for now there's no other option.

-- Hazel, admin of Enby.Life

PSA: there's a new spam campaign hitting fedi, this one claims to be raising money for insulin and usually has a banner saying "black lives matter" or another progressive slogan.

You can recognize it in the usual ways:
1. Brand-new accounts doing nothing but ask for money.
2. Cold-messaging strangers with personal requests for a boost or donation.
3. Identical or near-identical accounts appearing all over fedi, primarily on open-registration instances.

If you see these accounts or get pinged by them, don't panic! Just report the profile and let your moderators handle it. The image below is an example of what to look out for.

Update: the spammers have adjusted their format a bit, see these posts for details:
- https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/114744923583539270
- https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/114745221813651432

Update 2: This particular round of spam also has a new trick, which is immediately blocking remote instance staff after they create an account. Fortunately, this does not prevent them from being reported! Just continue to report as usual, and moderators can view the content through their report UI (on Mastodon / Akkoma) or by switching accounts (on Misskey / Sharkey).

#PSA #Spam #Scam #FediSpam #MastoSpam #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net yeah, that's true. it seems really risky when the other option (tell Mastodon to fix their backend) is so much easier ​​

@alice@mk.nyaa.place outbound federation - "pop out" all videos into a separate empty self-reply, then batch images into groups of four and do the same. Give each fake reply a generated id of <note_uri>/partial/<uuid>.

Inbound federation - rewrite incoming referenced URIs to remove the /partial/<uuid> part, thus redirecting all interactions and replies to the "real" post.

The author and anyone on non-mastodon platforms sees just the one post as-wrotte , while Mastodon users see a clean thread of media. Interactions and replies are all synced up for federation

@alice@mk.nyaa.place oh yeah, forgot about that. We could probably handle that on the backend with a little federation trickery and Misskey's dynamic federation stuff

Speaking as a software dev, you should take note when users start building their own software to work around intentional limits in your application. It's a sign that you've made a terrible mistake somewhere.

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/114624857663236436

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