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SFBA.social Spam Policy
Spam can be subjective, and can be defined differently in different contexts. It can be hard to know what should be reported. We’d like to share our working definition of spam with you, and as always, we welcome your comments and questions. What is spam? For purposes of moderation, we define spam as: Exceptions to…
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Transparency Report (Q1 2024)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics As of the end of March 2024 we tallied roughly 39,000 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 150 new…
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Important Transition Announcement for Our SFBA.social Community
We are reaching a crucial juncture in our journey, and your immediate attention and action are vital. Open Collective, our current platform and fiscal host for receiving tax-deductible donations will stop allowing us to collect donations in just seven days. As a result, we have to quickly shift how we manage and receive your invaluable…
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Transparency Report (Q4 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics As of the end of September 2023 we tallied roughly 39,000 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 400 new…
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Hello Book Lover!
We have adopted a new service that we felt fits well into our SFBA community: BookWyrm – An activity-pub powered book review/management open source software. Join the SFBA Book Club at https://sfba.club ! Setting up this new service was a fun project that filled empty time during our holiday break and it worked out great.…
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Transparency Report (Q3 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics As of the end of September 2023 we tallied roughly 38,500 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 500 new…
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Transparency Report (Q2 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics On June 30th, 2023 we tallied roughly 38,000 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 400 new users during the…
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Transparency Report (March 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. The team has met and agreed that these reports will be more effective when published less frequently. Future reports will be published quarterly. General…
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Transparency Report (February 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses, moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics On February 28th, 2023, we tallied roughly 37,900 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 400 new users during the month, fewer…
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Transparency Report (January 2023)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, with general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and being considered. General Statistics On January 31st, 2023 we tallied roughly 37,500 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 750 new users during the month, quite…