Is 185 users "a significant number"?

Will Mastodon.social be required to shut down its public web pages and cease federation?

Is AWS S3 required to ban pornography or implement age-assurance protocols for public HTTP requests?

Can Sotheby's auction house display images of Robert Mapplethorpe's "X" series on their web site?

These are some of the questions we asked in our letter to Ofcom regarding the #OnlineSafetyAct. https://blog.woof.group/announcements/letter-to-ofcom-regarding-the-online-safety-act

We've had a handful of https://mastodon.top accounts with malicious links in bios following folks here recently. Only been going on for a day so we're not gonna impose an instance-wide block just yet, but do keep an eye out for these accounts, don't click the links, and report them when you see 'em. Thanks! #admin

(Keep in mind admins may be traveling, ill, or otherwise unavailable, but I'm hoping @thomas_virtubox or their colleagues can get a handle on this shortly 😊)

A little metrics update: it's been just over a month since the migration. Our monthly active user statistics have repopulated; since we re-opened they've been rising steadily and we're back up to just over a thousand active members. The new-user flood has tapered off and things seem pretty stable right now, so we're gonna leave registrations open. 🙂

On the technical side, Redis and media storage have both stabilized. Postgres is still growing, but we've got plenty of capacity there. #admin