My watch has ended! :)

flancian@rhizome:~$ sudo docker exec -it docker-web-1 tootctl accounts modify flancian --remove-role
OK

I wish the Mastodon instance its best! I will remain engaged in the Tech Working Group exploring other projects and available for emergencies but otherwise plan to shift away from #Mastodon project work.

In my years since I onboarded to the TWG I helped achieve the following objectives:

- Got Mastodon instance maintenance team back to a healthy rotation.
- Many updates :)
- Set up alpha.social.coop for testing riskier updates.
- Deployed the max characters hot patch :D

Thanks all!

#SocialCoop

Notes and links from Wednesday 22 April: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/04/22/notes-and-links-from-wednesday.html

A pottering day today, mostly in the garden, tidying up the pile of prunings I wasn’t able to mulch the other day.

(Today's reading links came via @adamgreenfield and @afewbugs. #socialcoop ftw!)

Finally, after ~25 days or so, I can follow @seldo!

#Socialcoop suspended him which made them vanish off the face of the earth from the point of view of our #Fediverse instance. Is that OK?

Honestly: it didn't feel great. I am very particular about being able to interact with the people I want to interact with, and take objection to insufficiently justified unilateral actions. I filed a concern about it with the moderation team and they recently reached a decision.

#SocialCoop PSA: emails from Mastodon, including verification emails for new accounts, are not being delivered because of our email provider (Mailgun) restricting our whole account in a relatively draconian response to a mistake I personally made while trying to fix email sending for our Bonfire instance.

The two instances are independent and I thought our email configuration was as well, but clearly I was wrong :) Apologies for the disruption!

I'm talking to support and hoping to get this restored today.

#Bonfire 1.0.2:

Our gift to you, my friends! In #Socialcoop