Hey #MstdnGames friends!!

A friendly reminder that the #steam summer sale begins in a few days, so if you have a game or two you want to buy, maybe hold off until the 25th to see if Steam puts it on sale.

Happy #gaming!

This might be controversial, but I do not approve accounts for this instance that do not have legit email domains.

Nope. Not in the age of bot farms and harassment of fedi admins and mod teams.

If you'd like to hang out in our space, please apply with a real, legitimate email address. THANK YOU.

#MstdnGames

Note for other Instance Admins and Mods:

#MstdnGames has been flooded with bot registrations leaving what appear to be an effortful ‘reason’ for wanting to join our instance. They have all been variations of the this:

“I'm looking for a community that actively engages with leftist ideas and values solidarity, mutual aid, and anti-oppression principles. I want to participate in discussions and share perspectives in a space that is already oriented toward the values I support.”

This is just one example, I’ve seen a dozen variations of this in just the last week alone.

Just a friendly warning that bots seem to be submitting more sophisticated entries to try to get past manual screenings for new user accounts.

#MstdnGames Admin Notice:

We’ve limited/silenced Mastodon.world due to excessive bot activity today.

When things cool down, it’ll be changed back to normal federation.

I’m sharing our instance donation options since I’ve had a few folks ask with the server hosting changes:

If you’d like to help support the ongoing costs to keep #MstdnGames online, you can do so on either our Patreon or Ko-Fi page:

https://www.patreon.com/MastodonGaming

https://ko-fi.com/mastodongaming

The #MstdnGames instance is flying ✈️ after we changed our hosting provider! It’s light years faster and much more responsive.   

My sincerest thanks to @jonah for helping us with the transfer. You’re an absolute legend. 

RE: https://mstdn.games/@britt/116013094706931728

So, I helped Britt out with moving her instance to a new server provider this week.

While the people at toot.io were relatively helpful in our email chain (once she was finally able to get a hold of them in the first place anyways), the setup at toot.io was a bit strange and not optimized for an instance of her size. The actual server itself was well *over*powered for her to be seeing the slowdowns she was, and Mastodon & especially Postgres just weren’t using those resources to a full extent.

Honestly the biggest red flag 🚩🚩🚩 to me isn’t what toot.io is doing now necessarily, but that it was apparently sold(?) to completely new management without notice to customers. In a niche service industry like this, that seems like a big problem to me, to not even explain who’s taking over and why you should trust them.

The previous ownership is probably more at fault for this relatively speaking, but it’s probably a good opportunity for toot.io customers to reevaluate their hosting options… Even if you ultimately end up sticking with toot.io, you simply might not be fully aware of what’s going on over at your own hosting company anymore, and that’s always worth double-checking 👀

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #MstdnGames #InstanceMigration #Tootio

Couldn’t be more proud of wifey ( @britt ) and all the work she puts into running #mstdnGames 💜 If you weren’t aware already, she’s amazing

Looks like we are back up and running friends!