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Aus Social Mods 3d ago

Hi Aus.social
There is currently a scam going around asking people to verify their account and identity
The official accounts for aus.social are this one, @AusSocialMods, and @aussocialadmin
We don't want to see your ID documents, because that's sensitive information and sensitive information is too much work. If we do moderate one of your posts you'll get an email

Cheers
Aus.social mods

Aus Social Mods Apr 16

Aus Social Mods Feb 27

Hello aus.social members

A quick reminder that the Code of Conduct includes using Content Warnings (CW) and/or appropriate hashtags when posting about political matters such as party and electoral politics. This includes posting memes or reacting to current events.

Given the likely topics in the media at the coming election we are going to be keeping a closer watch on this, as we want to keep aus.social an inclusive space

Using CWs and hashtags enables people to choose to engage with or filter out posts. Hashtags will also help others who want to talk about these topics find your posts.

Suggested hashtags/CWs are things like Auspol, NSWPol
If you have questions please get in touch

Thanks
Aus social mods

Aus Social Mods Mar 11

Aus.Social Admin Mar 11

Server will be migrated in a few hours. I’m delayed by a book launch “Just Melbourne things”.

Aus Social Mods Mar 10

Aus.Social Admin Mar 9

warning: aus.social will have a major outage today/tomorrow for 2-5 hours depending on “the feeling of the machine god”.

I’m migrating from Datacenter to datacenter so just need to physically move the server and then setup the firewalls rules (then pray to the DNS gods).

* The DNS gods have an entirely different agenda.

Aus Social Mods Feb 27

Hello aus.social members

A quick reminder that the Code of Conduct includes using Content Warnings (CW) and/or appropriate hashtags when posting about political matters such as party and electoral politics. This includes posting memes or reacting to current events.

Given the likely topics in the media at the coming election we are going to be keeping a closer watch on this, as we want to keep aus.social an inclusive space

Using CWs and hashtags enables people to choose to engage with or filter out posts. Hashtags will also help others who want to talk about these topics find your posts.

Suggested hashtags/CWs are things like Auspol, NSWPol
If you have questions please get in touch

Thanks
Aus social mods

Aus Social Mods Jan 25

Mod announcement:

Hello aus.social members

A quick reminder that the Code of Conduct includes using Content Warnings (CW) and/or appropriate hashtags when posting about political matters such as party and electoral politics. This includes posting memes or reacting to current events.

Using CWs and hashtags enables people to choose to engage with or filter out posts. Hashtags will also help others who want to talk about these topics find your posts. With Invasion day tomorrow and the current situation in the USA there is a lot of upsetting electoral politics happening and it's polite to give people agency in how they interact with it

Suggested hashtags/CWs are things like Auspol, USpol

Thanks,
Aus social mods

Aus Social Mods Dec 5, 2024

Aus.Social Admin Dec 5, 2024

Poll: Should I trigger the #Wrapstodon? (This is majority rules).