Mastodawn

#SocialBC folks, I need your help with something:

Over the last few days I’ve noticed an uptick in stories—particularly from the National Post—that *I feel* are intended to sow division by casting doubt on First Nations’ claims of unmarked burial sites at former residential school sites in BC.

Typically I let the bots operate mostly hands-off, but personally I’m finding these stories a bit offensive.

I’m looking for feedback as to what the followers of this bot feel is appropriate:

-@fname

Let the bot do its thing, we’ll figure it out

Edit/curate the feed to remove offending sources

Other: please comment below

Poll ended at 1:34pm.

*|FNAME|*

May 20

#SocialBC #Kamloops NewsBot users: the hourly weather reports: do you find them useful or should I get rid of them or change them?

Keep them

50%

Kill them

50%

Change them (comment below)

Poll ended at May 23 at 12:25pm.

*|FNAME|*

May 20

#SocialBC NewsBot question:

FlowHockey posts; do you use it or should I lose it?

Use it!

66.7%

Lose it!

33.3%

Poll ended at May 23 at 1:28am.

*|FNAME|*

May 15

SocialBC folks: how are peoples’ experiences with the local news bots? Any feedback?

#SocialBC

Chris Alemany May 14

#socialBC is back online. A victim of our success... growing disk space usage :)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸May 14

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

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Chris Alemany May 8

@jsewell welcome to BC and #SocialBC Jeffrey!!

Chris Alemany May 7

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

*|FNAME|*

Apr 27

Since I went nuclear on the Black Press owned outlets I’m definitely noticing a lack of local news for the smaller communities. Is anyone else feeling the absence of news from their particular town/region?

#SocialBC #BCNews

Chris Alemany Apr 24

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

#MastodonCloud #Federation #Fediverse