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SocialBC folks: how are peoples’ experiences with the local news bots? Any feedback?
Chris Alemany#socialBC is back online. A victim of our success... growing disk space usage :)
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Heads up for #SocialBC users.
We’ve been having some issues since yesterday afternoon where timelines are updating a visible but posting and interactions are not working or intermittent.
We're on the case and working on a fix.
Thanks for your patience.
Chris and the SOSSBC/SocialBC team
As promised, I have implemented the suspension/block on mastodon.cloud. Folks on #SocialBC will not be able to interact with accounts on that server.
This was done due to ongoing issues with spam and un-moderated user additions from that un-regulated and defunct server.
The negative impact should be minimal as very few people followed accounts there or vice versa.
#MastodonCloud #FediBlock #Fediverse #moderation #OpenInstance
Hey #SocialBC folks!
I've posted an announcement on the webpage. You can find it under the speaker icon. The short version is:
As of May 1, 2026 SocialBC.ca will be de-federating from the Mastodon.cloud instance.
The instance has become defunct and still has open registation so is becoming a source of spam and other problematic content.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to the team.
Chris and the SocialBC Team
Found a little glitch with the #RosslandBC news feed this morning. I’ve narrowed the search scope a little bit to hopefully tighten it up. #SocialBC
News bot update: with *most* of the Black Press outlets filtered out, the feed (at least from my perspective) seems much more relevant and manageable.
I discovered that the site (rss.app) I use to create the feeds has an upper limit on the number of filter terms I can use, and I’ve reached it, so adding any more keywords means removing others.
One day I’d like to move to a programatic solution, but I’m not much of a coder, so a bunch more learning would be required…