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Hachyderm<p>== Quick reminder for those who use work emails for many things ==</p><p>Lots of people use work emails for Slacks, Discords, and sometimes yes even for their social media. This is usually for accounts that either are for their work presence *or* that have work-home scope bleed between them.</p><p>Remember to check if you're using your work emails for anything! Many services can't, by tooling or policy, just change your email. So if you change employers and need a password reset you may need a wholly new account!</p><p>❤️</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello again all! This is several, related, announcements in one.</p><p>== HugOps to Mastodon Social ===</p><p>Apologies for the delayed announcement, but after seeing more spam originating from Mastodon Social we've temporarily re-limited them. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HugOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HugOps</span></a> to the Mastodon Social team as they wade through it, you've got this! We'll post another update early next week after we lift the limit over the weekend to see how it's going.</p><p>== Sign Ups / New Users ==</p><p>Relevantly, for our site sign ups: we're still seeing ... some novel attempts to get around our sign ups, so we're continuing to keep our sign ups limited at this time and hope to be able to re-open sign ups soon.</p><p>== How you can help ==</p><p>For those who have been curious about how they can help: thank you and you can! We have some cross functional work that would benefit from the attention of both moderation and infrastructure. We've recently scaled infra, and are happy to add more, but importantly we're looking to expand our moderation team and Trusted Reporters*. If either of these interest you, please email us at admin [at] hachyderm.io</p><p>== *What is a Trusted Reporter ==</p><p>Trusted Reporters are people who are interested in community safety and want to learn more about moderation process to improve their ability to file actionable reports. Trusted Reports are *not* full time moderators and do *not* have escalated privileges, they just learn more about moderation process to empower them to file reports that are quickly actionable by including the information we need.</p><p>While we use Trusted Reporters to improve community safety on Hachyderm, anyone is welcome to request to become one! We believe in knowledge share and cross community support. :hachyderm: :logo_mastodon: ❤️ </p><p>Cheers!</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello Hachyderm! :hachyderm: </p><p>We've temporarily limited Mastodon.Social :logo_mastodon:, for one week, due to a surge in spam. After that week we'll reassess so they have time to handle the surge in the interim.</p><p>If you still see spam from Mastodon Social: please report it and make sure to select to Forward to Mastodon Social when you do, that way both we and they see it! </p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Update: Mastodon Social limit removed ❤️</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello everyone! Quick update regarding sign ups: </p><p>We're still seeing spam sign ups surge and wane. We've also noticed that quite a few of them are using ChatGPT and similar technologies to write human-enough sounding Reasons To Join (a required field) as well as Appeals. We're working hard to add more layers and nuance to figuring out how to better detect the spam, thank you all for your patience! :blobfoxheartcute:</p>
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Hachyderm<p>Announcement from yesterday:</p><p>Hello Hachyderm!</p><p>Due to a sharp increase in spam registrations, we have temporarily changed the settings to require approval for new signups. Please be patient with us as we work through the requests and reports.</p><p>Have an excellent day!<br />- Hachy Mods & Infra</p>
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Hachyderm<p>Hello Hachyderm! Thank you for your patience as we gathered the necessary data to write our announcement blog post regarding Threads.</p><p>The short version: Hachyderm has defederated from Threads.</p><p>Specifically, this is due to Threads changing their moderation policies and moderator guidance (see press cycle) to be in direct conflict with Hachyderm.</p><p>For the data and explainer, please see our announcement blog post:</p><p><a href="https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/01/09/defederation-from-threads/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.hachyderm.io/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/09/defederation-from-threads/</span></a></p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello Hachydermians! As we continue to monitor Threads as part of Limited federation, we are aware of the current changes that were announced to Threads moderation as well as the Wired article and statements from Mark Zuckerberg. Our blog post with next steps will be published this Friday (10 Jan).</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello, Hachyderm! If you haven't seen the system-wide announcement yet, we've increased the max toot length from 500 to 2263, so now you can enjoy posting longer form content - no more word Tetris to squeeze that last word in!</p><p>We're excited for Hachyderm's future and happy to have you as part of our community. :hachyderm: </p><p>See you in the 'verse!</p>
Hachyderm<p>** For the "you" in "you'd like to ask about": please only request your own bots. If you have a bot you'd like to see if they're interested in migrating here, please have the maintainers of the bot reach out to us.</p><p>Thank you!</p><p>(4/4)</p><p>:hachyderm: ❤️</p>
Hachyderm<p>We are still open to welcoming a small number of bots that are looking for new homes from the BotsInSpace instance. For those wondering if we're a good home for them, our goal is to balance community care, fun, and tech in a way that improves without being overwhelming. </p><p>Our current bot rules are written with that latter goal in mind. That said, rules can bend where appropriate. So if you have a bot you'd** like to ask about, please email us admin @ hachyderm . io</p><p>(3/N)</p>
Hachyderm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@PleaseCaptionBot" class="u-url mention">@<span>PleaseCaptionBot</span></a></span> is an interactive bot that helps people provide Alt Text to their images. To use the bot you opt in (and out) by Following (and Unfollowing) the bot account.</p><p>When you are following the bot, it will autorespond to you via a "DM" / "Private Post" to add alt text to any images you post that do not already have it. The "DM"s/ "Private Messages" stop when you unfollow the bot.</p><p>(2/N)</p>
Hachyderm<p>We'd like to take a moment and welcome two bots (one with a plus one) that have migrated to our server from BotsInSpace that we feel align with our server ethos and support community:</p><p>Please welcome both <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@PleaseCaptionBot" class="u-url mention">@<span>PleaseCaptionBot</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare" class="u-url mention">@<span>selfcare</span></a></span> ( + <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@selfcaregentle" class="u-url mention">@<span>selfcaregentle</span></a></span> ). </p><p>Both <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare" class="u-url mention">@<span>selfcare</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@selfcaregentle" class="u-url mention">@<span>selfcaregentle</span></a></span> post frequent, small, tips reminding us all to take care of ourselves. Drink water. Take your meds. Stretch for a moment, etc.</p><p>(1/N)</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello all! We've been talking with a few BotsinSpace accounts, as the instance is being shut down, to see if they feel like Hachyderm would be a good home for them. Not all the bots we're looking at are specific to tech and are just good for the soul. We'll be posting more here as we add their accounts.</p>
Hachyderm<p>(3/3)</p><p>tl;dr --<br />Hachyderm operates primarily out of the EU. We will reduce our exposure to US-based companies and continue to place key infrastructure in the EU. Also, Hachyderm Infra is looking for volunteers.</p>
Hachyderm<p>(2/3)</p><p>There is a lot of work to do! If you're technically savvy or want to learn more about operating distributed social media systems at scale, we're always looking for motivated volunteers to come help out. You don't have to be an industry veteran to keep making Hachyderm better; we welcome all skill levels and backgrounds.</p>
Hachyderm<p>Hello, Hachyderm!</p><p>We've been talking about an upcoming post about our plans to prepare our infrastructure for possible changes in legislation coming from the United States' with the new administration. The post is finally here: <a href="https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/11/29/ensuring-hachyderms-future-improving-safety-resilience-through-strategic-placement-of-infrastructure/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.hachyderm.io/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">24/11/29/ensuring-hachyderms-future-improving-safety-resilience-through-strategic-placement-of-infrastructure/</span></a>. </p><p>Please take a moment and read through our plans. As always, if you have any questions, please reach out to us <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@hachyderm" class="u-url mention">@<span>hachyderm</span></a></span> or in our new community discussions section on Github at <a href="https://github.com/hachyderm/community/discussions/589" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/hachyderm/community</span><span class="invisible">/discussions/589</span></a>.</p><p>1/3</p>
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