Moved to [email protected]

@gersande
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I joined mastodon.social in November 2016. 6 years later I decided to try my hand at a new instance, my own đŸ€Ș😅: [email protected]

«commettant des actes de sĂ©dition contre l'AcadĂ©mie française» depuis 1990. ‹‹Pigiste en traduction, rĂ©daction et rĂ©vision. Auteur.e en herbe.‹
‹💬 they/iel‹
📍 tiotiĂĄh:ke (MontrĂ©al, QuĂ©bec)‹
đŸ” gyokuro (ou du matcha)

Services de traduction et de révisionshttps://gersande.com/
Blog (en)https://gersande.com/blog
Blog (fr)https://gersande.com/blogue

Nouveau compte sur une nouvelle instance, alors voici une nouvelle #introduction:

Je suis une personne #nonbinaire #queer qui vit Ă  tiotiĂĄh:ke (#MontrĂ©al #Quebec) avec mon conjoint @leifurhauks et notre chat pelucheux et opĂ©ratique (#FlouffeChat). Je suis un∙e auteur∙e en herbe multilingue, mais j’écris principalement en français et en anglais. J’adore le thĂ© et le #senchado, je bois le plus souvent du #matcha ou, mon đŸ” prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©, du #gyokuro.

Folks, in view of my 2019-era shadowban that I don't think will be lifted any time soon, I'm moving to a new instance. You can find me over @gersande. It's an instance I spun up for myself this evening out of something not wholly unlike morbid curiosity. I'll be posting there for the foreseeable future. Or at least until I crash it 😅 A big thank you to @leifurhauks's invaluable help fixing my sysadminy mistakes.
Mini-update: my email to staff@ has gone unanswered. This post gives some light — can anyone else confirm this? 😂 https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109310217437209392
Aurynn Shaw (@[email protected])

If you wonder why the memes about mastodon.social and mastodon.online being unmoderated go around it's because they literally only have one moderator right now

Cloud Island

To #BIPOC / #POC users of Mastodon (others can boost):

What do you make of CW culture and norms on here?

The people I see being most vocal about it are 99.99% White people which feels like a red flag

(edit: White people - you're welcome to read and boost, but please be mindful about replies as this is a discussion by and for BIPOC. This includes replies to other people's replies. Preferably just don't comment in this thread, I've gotten tired trying to moderate even well-meaning folk.)

Aaaahhh @Kayray I found the fiber arts crowd! Follow @fiberarts & then you can tag that account to share a post with everyone in the group.

Ditto @kidlit for my #childrensbooks crew

One more delicious means of connecting

I keep forgetting that people cannot see my posts unless they already follow me because I am shadowbanned on my instance (see pinned posts in my profile for the thread-saga) so most of my replies are being completely hidden!! Oh well.
I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Note Ă  ceux qui espĂšrent que « Mastodon va prendre, que cette fois-ci c’est la bonne » : Mastodon a pris dĂšs 2017. Il y’a toujours eu de l’activitĂ©, des gens intĂ©ressants.

Ça a dĂ©jĂ  pris, ça continuera Ă  prendre. Et Twitter continuera aussi d’exister. Le but n’est pas de remplacer un monopole par une monoculture mais d’oser l’explosion d’alternatives.

Ceci dit, on est quand mĂȘme vachement content de vous (re)voir. On va devoir se serrer un peu mais c’est de bon cƓur.

«Et comme l’a dit Pierre Trudeau : la relation du Canada avec les États-Unis est celle de la souris qui dort avec un Ă©lĂ©phant.

L’élĂ©phant amĂ©ricain est toujours aussi gros.

Et il est de plus en plus enragé.»

J’ai peur des AmĂ©ricains (2) | La Presse 👇

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniques/2022-11-08/j-ai-peur-des-americains-2.php

J’ai peur des AmĂ©ricains (2)

Les AmĂ©ricains votent mardi aux Ă©lections de mi-mandat et attachez vos tuques avec de la broche : le trumpisme risque de revenir en force.

La Presse

Wow. Stats on federated events consumed by our server this week:

Nov 3-5: 280k events each day
Nov 6: 410k events
Nov 7: 764k events
Nov 8 (which is not even over yet): 1.7 million events

This is a sustained increase over the course of about a week. I have never seen anything like it. Usually what we see in an influx is a one or two day bump and then dropoff. I have never seen a week of solid rampup before. This feels very different.