SFBA Moderators

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The official account of the SFBA Moderators.
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The only difference between SFBA and the standard Mastodon client is that SFBA has the character limit increased to 1024.

@scott @CStamp @Mikal

Hi SFBA!

Our database needs a little TLC! To keep everything running smoothly, we'll be performing some quick maintenance this Saturday afternoon. We expect the site to be down for about 2 hours—thanks for your patience while we tidy things up!

@zspencer Hi Zee, it's fine to ping us here about things like this. We also have a support email: [email protected]. I think this is a Mastodon software limitation, but we will look into it and see.

@scott The way we tend to moderate it in practice is that we take action when it appears to be something like a bot network or coordinated disinformation. But if it's just a person saying something that seems to be false, we generally don't, unless it's obviously dangerous.

Given the size of our operation, we don't really have the capacity to fact-check all things, so we may end up dismissing some reports, but it’s still worth reporting things that you find suspicious along with some explanation of your thoughts.

Overall, it's better to report than not report when unsure. Sometimes we get several similar reports, and that has tipped us off to a coordinated campaign.

Thanks for thinking about it!

We took a closer look at this account and domain, and after some discussion, we blocked the subdomain ext.sportsbots.xyz, which is the origin of the auto-generated accounts that cross-post from elsewhere.

The reported account itself appears not to be doing anything that violates our policies, and some of our users do follow them. That said, we definitely understand the annoyance, and will keep an eye on the account.

Thanks for your report!

@FinchHaven @samloonie

Hello from my new Mastodon account. I previously was @kateiacy, but the med-mastodon instance is no more. Previous followers, please follow me here. Also, please boost to help others find my new account.

Hello SFBA!
Thank you for joining us here on SFBA this year! We’ve published our end-of-year transparency report, covering Q2-Q4. Our Q1 report is also available on the information hub.

Happy new year!   🎊

https://hub.sfba.social/2025/12/21/2025-q2-q4-transparency-report/

2025 Q2-Q4 Transparency Report – SFBA COMMUNITY HUB

Thanks for considering sfba.social! If you have questions about the instance, the moderation team would be happy to try to answer them for you. We don't exclude mastodon.social posts from trending; there just aren't very many of them.

@kzeta

We don't anticipate that the impact will be significant, but we'll have to wait a few days to see if anything really changes.

@scott

RE: https://sfba.social/@naturerabbithole/115523500846371579

I started a separate social feed for my nature-related posts, so I hope you'll follow me there!