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@lucky We've discussed and decided to give it a go - subject to it behaving the way it says it does. 🤞 See our announcement at https://mastodon.nz/@themods/113302630 558035308

@theadmin

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@lucky We've discussed and decided to give it a go - subject to it behaving the way it says it does. 🤞 See our announcement at https://mastodon.nz/@themods/113302630 558035308

@theadmin

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This is subject to good behaviour on its part. Our expectation based on our reading is that it will be useful for people who want to use it and won't affect those who don't (ie your posts won't be bridged unless you've opted in). Please let us know if you spot anything undesirable!

Note if we do have to limit/suspend it again, the upgrade to 4.3.0 means you'll get notified of any lost followers, and the option to export a list.

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This is subject to good behaviour on its part. Our expectation based on our reading is that it will be useful for people who want to use it and won't affect those who don't (ie your posts won't be bridged unless you've opted in). Please let us know if you spot anything undesirable!

Note if we do have to limit/suspend it again, the upgrade to 4.3.0 means you'll get notified of any lost followers, and the option to export a list.

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Kia ora koutou, a couple of updates today:

1) We've updated to 4.3.0 which you'll notice if you're using the web version: see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/ for details.

2) Because we've learned that Bridgy Fed now works on an opt-in basis only (see full docs at https://fed.brid.gy/docs ), after careful consideration we've *experimentally* removed our suspension of bsky.brid.gy

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Kia ora koutou, a couple of updates today:

1) We've updated to 4.3.0 which you'll notice if you're using the web version: see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/ for details.

2) Because we've learned that Bridgy Fed now works on an opt-in basis only (see full docs at https://fed.brid.gy/docs ), after careful consideration we've *experimentally* removed our suspension of bsky.brid.gy

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@lucky Our original announcement was at https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111922574 310127553 (and re the Threads bridge, which that references, see https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111588559 256281694 )

It *looks* like they're now saying they're opt-in rather than opt-out as first announced. I'm not sure that resolves all the ethical issues and we do tend to err on the side of avoiding 'embrace, extend, extinguish', but I'll have a read of their docs and discuss with the other mods / @theadmin and we'll let you know if we change our stance. -Zeborah

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@lucky Our original announcement was at https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111922574 310127553 (and re the Threads bridge, which that references, see https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111588559 256281694 )

It *looks* like they're now saying they're opt-in rather than opt-out as first announced. I'm not sure that resolves all the ethical issues and we do tend to err on the side of avoiding 'embrace, extend, extinguish', but I'll have a read of their docs and discuss with the other mods / @theadmin and we'll let you know if we change our stance. -Zeborah

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(*) Someone is about to say “Technically that’s PascalCase, not camelCase.” To which I pre-emptively reply:
- *Technically* only some people make that distinction while others distinguish UpperCamelCase and lowerCamelCase.
- “Pascal case” is a boring term. Camels are far more interesting and therefore memorable.
- In addition to humps in the middle, camels also have heads at the front, and therefore UpperCamelCase is anatomically correct.

But for hashtags, either works fine! --Zeborah

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(*) Someone is about to say “Technically that’s PascalCase, not camelCase.” To which I pre-emptively reply:
- *Technically* only some people make that distinction while others distinguish UpperCamelCase and lowerCamelCase.
- “Pascal case” is a boring term. Camels are far more interesting and therefore memorable.
- In addition to humps in the middle, camels also have heads at the front, and therefore UpperCamelCase is anatomically correct.

But for hashtags, either works fine! --Zeborah

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Happy Saturday! We all know and love alt text, but another useful accessibility trick is to CamelCase(*) hashtags, making it easier for screenreaders to pronounce.

Sadly Mastodon’s hashtag auto-suggest uses whatever case the server first saw.

Happily mods can edit the case that trending hashtags https://mastodon.nz/explore/tags display as. I’m testing this (let me know if you spot anything weird!) but if you’re creating a new hashtag you can help by taking a moment to CamelCase it yourself. 🥰

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Happy Saturday! We all know and love alt text, but another useful accessibility trick is to CamelCase(*) hashtags, making it easier for screenreaders to pronounce.

Sadly Mastodon’s hashtag auto-suggest uses whatever case the server first saw.

Happily mods can edit the case that trending hashtags https://mastodon.nz/explore/tags display as. I’m testing this (let me know if you spot anything weird!) but if you’re creating a new hashtag you can help by taking a moment to CamelCase it yourself. 🥰

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@BobLefridge @tcnicholls Sorry for the delay, @theadmin had to do a techy thing, it seems to have finally kicked in now. :crossed_fingers:

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@BobLefridge @tcnicholls Sorry for the delay, @theadmin had to do a techy thing, it seems to have finally kicked in now. :crossed_fingers:

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@BobLefridge Have flagged this with our admin who deals with the server. I might be seeing the same behaviour but will check tomorrow to confirm. -Zeborah

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@BobLefridge Have flagged this with our admin who deals with the server. I might be seeing the same behaviour but will check tomorrow to confirm. -Zeborah

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Nau mai, haere mai to the 2 new members who've signed up to mastodon.nz this week!

(Also haere atu to the 2 spammers who *tried* to sign up. 😉 )

This is your semi-regular thread for anyone who'd like to say hi, post an introduction, and/or ask any questions about how this Mastodon place works.

Kōrero mai, pātai mai! --Zeborah

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Nau mai, haere mai to the 2 new members who've signed up to mastodon.nz this week!

(Also haere atu to the 2 spammers who *tried* to sign up. 😉 )

This is your semi-regular thread for anyone who'd like to say hi, post an introduction, and/or ask any questions about how this Mastodon place works.

Kōrero mai, pātai mai! --Zeborah

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For no particular reason, just a reminder that by community consensus one of the mastodon.nz rules is that "Posts about politics must be tagged one or more of #nzpol, #tōrangapū, #pol, and/or #politics, and optionally may be content warned." More detailed guidelines are available on https://mastodon.nz/rules.pdf

Also just be wary of what you boost as there's bound to be a lot of misinformation out there.

Thanks and ❤️

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For no particular reason, just a reminder that by community consensus one of the mastodon.nz rules is that "Posts about politics must be tagged one or more of #nzpol, #tōrangapū, #pol, and/or #politics, and optionally may be content warned." More detailed guidelines are available on https://mastodon.nz/rules.pdf

Also just be wary of what you boost as there's bound to be a lot of misinformation out there.

Thanks and ❤️

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Nau mai, haere mai to the 5 new members who've signed up to mastodon.nz in the last week! This is slightly more than average but there's always a steady trickle arriving.

We thought it might be nice to start regularly posting the numbers, and more importantly having a thread where people (whether new in the last week, month, year, or decade) can say hi, post an introduction, and/or ask any question about how this Mastodon thing works anyway. 😃

So have at it: kōrero mai, pātai mai! -Zeborah

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Nau mai, haere mai to the 5 new members who've signed up to mastodon.nz in the last week! This is slightly more than average but there's always a steady trickle arriving.

We thought it might be nice to start regularly posting the numbers, and more importantly having a thread where people (whether new in the last week, month, year, or decade) can say hi, post an introduction, and/or ask any question about how this Mastodon thing works anyway. 😃

So have at it: kōrero mai, pātai mai! -Zeborah

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@jeremy_pm We support people speaking out about human rights abuses in Gaza, & regularly dismiss unfounded reports against people calling for a free Palestine. Our decision in this case was based on the specific contents of these two posts.

Rule 10 states: No [...] conspiracy theories.

Accusing Mossad of taking out Corbyn is a conspiracy theory (see https://www. jpost.com/Israel-News/Irish-MP-apologizes-for-saying-Mossad-tanked-Jeremy-Corbyns-campaign-618231), which is what the complaint was about. Saying that Israel is occupying more places than just Palestine reinforces this.

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@jeremy_pm We support people speaking out about human rights abuses in Gaza, & regularly dismiss unfounded reports against people calling for a free Palestine. Our decision in this case was based on the specific contents of these two posts.

Rule 10 states: No [...] conspiracy theories.

Accusing Mossad of taking out Corbyn is a conspiracy theory (see https://www. jpost.com/Israel-News/Irish-MP-apologizes-for-saying-Mossad-tanked-Jeremy-Corbyns-campaign-618231), which is what the complaint was about. Saying that Israel is occupying more places than just Palestine reinforces this.

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@tveastman @seawall We've now(*) blocked both that account and the server hosting it from mastodon.nz

(*) Specifically, just after 3pm - *just* now I got home, saw the report, then saw that a fellow mod had already thoroughly dealt with it. ❤️

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@tveastman @seawall We've now(*) blocked both that account and the server hosting it from mastodon.nz

(*) Specifically, just after 3pm - *just* now I got home, saw the report, then saw that a fellow mod had already thoroughly dealt with it. ❤️

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@jonoabroad No, but it was @keoni 's thread that alerted us to this, thank you @keoni!

And the fact that Mastodon is the kind of place where we can disagree and also agree and also change our minds is exactly the kind of vibe we want to maintain. ❤️ -Zeborah

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@jonoabroad No, but it was @keoni 's thread that alerted us to this, thank you @keoni!

And the fact that Mastodon is the kind of place where we can disagree and also agree and also change our minds is exactly the kind of vibe we want to maintain. ❤️ -Zeborah

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@keoni We've decided to simply block the bridge in advance, tēnā koe.

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@keoni We've decided to simply block the bridge in advance, tēnā koe.

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Kia Ora Koutou, we've decided to preemptively block/defederate the Bluesky bridge (announcement: https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106) due to ethical issues with opt out, and the precedent we had already set by blocking Threads and Twitter bridges such as bird.makeup etc..

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Kia Ora Koutou, we've decided to preemptively block/defederate the Bluesky bridge (announcement: https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106) due to ethical issues with opt out, and the precedent we had already set by blocking Threads and Twitter bridges such as bird.makeup etc..

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@keoni I've brought this to the rest of the team's attention.
Personally, (as @atmmachine not @themods ) I'm in favour of blocking but we will see if the other mods want to consult everyone first. —ATM

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@keoni I've brought this to the rest of the team's attention.
Personally, (as @atmmachine not @themods ) I'm in favour of blocking but we will see if the other mods want to consult everyone first. —ATM