Tabby's account for official Blorbo.Social Business.
If I'm using caps lock, it's for emphasis only!
Tabby cat icon by @LeGaosaure!
| Pronouns | She/Her |
| Fellow Admin | @admin |
| Personal Account | @Tabby |
Hi everyone! We're aware of the new wave of "account verification" spambots. Please DO continue to report these accounts!
Thank you all so much!
While we don't often have to reach out this way, I recommend double checking this setting periodically until the update rolls out! I've known a couple people who didn't realize this setting was enabled by default, and thusly didn't realize anyone was trying to message them privately.
Honestly, it's probably worth checking what's getting filtered periodically regardless of this admin-specific update in case a reply from someone you DO want to talk to gets filtered by accident!
There is currently an issue in Mastodon that means new users will not be notified of private messages from their admin/mods by default :blobupsidedown: A fix has already been implemented, but something to be aware of until it is released. This is due to the notification setting "Unsolicited private mentions" defaulting to "Filtered", which is a reasonable general default, but shouldn't apply to your own local admins and mods trying to contact you privately. #MastoAdmin
We do have (or had, rather, defederation deletes this stuff) a little data about our connections to threads!
Personally I was quite surprised by the stored accounts since I've never SEEN a threads user or post on the fediverse? But ultimately only 9 of our users were following anyone on Threads, so the impact seems to be pretty small despite the 9,835 posts stored and the 1,622 accounts.
@admintabby I am in favor of this choice. đ Do we have any data about how many users we had following or having followers from threads? I saw some other servers on the explore page state their numbers (some as high as 10k connections!). But I haven't personally followed or have followers from threads haha.
In light of Zuckerberg's intended moderation changes for Threads, Blorbo Social will no longer be federating with Threads. We may revisit this decision in the future.
We apologize for any inconvenience this causes for our users, and as always, we welcome any feedback you may have!
Just processed all the pending user applications. Sorry for the delay!
If your application was rejected, you're welcome to apply again, but I recommend checking this post first on why your application may have been rejected:
https://blorbo.social/@admin/113609177069483168
Did we reject your application for an account on blorbo.social? If so, it's highly likely that it's because your application didn't mention anything fannish or blorbo-related. We're not that selective, and we accept most applications. We usually reject an application if it seems like the person applying doesn't know that blorbo.social is for fannish people. You don't have to be particularly fannish yourself, as long as it doesn't bother you to be on a fandom-focused instance. If you've randomly selected blorbo.social without knowing anything about it, this might not be the right instance for you. There are lots of other instances you can try. Look here for some suggestions: https://instances.social If you still want an account on blorbo.social, you have a couple of options: - If you know someone who already has an account here, ask them to send you an invite. This will enable you to create an account immediately without having to wait for a mod to review it. - Otherwise, just apply again, and this time make sure you mention something about fandom or blorbos. Unless you were an absolute fuckwit in your first application (extremely rare), we won't have blacklisted you. We probably won't even realise that you've previously applied. #BlorboAdmin
HELLO I have finally fulfilled my fate in life, Tabby becomes a TABBY CAT thanks to @LeGaosaure!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Attached: 1 image @admintabby You're Tabby, this is a tabby right? Feel free to use if it amuses you ^^ (Made by me, modify it as you want!)
Hello hello! Please pardon how desolate this account looks right now!
Going forward, this will be where I post tech specific updates about Blorbo.Social, as well as guidance when necessary for things like how best to submit your report during a spam wave for example.
Additionally, if there's any general moderation business that needs to be handled via DM (or a regular post), and @admin Chicken isn't the one handling it, I'll be sending messages from here instead of my personal account.
If you have any thoughts or questions about how this account will be used, feel free to ask! #BlorboAdmin
