Category: Community Info
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Growing Our Moderation Team
Hello, SFBA friends! We’d like to add another volunteer to our moderation team, which currently stands at four people. We can comfortably handle the instance’s needs now, but we want to have extra capacity for those occasions when someone takes time off or unusual events increase the moderation load. Especially considering the coming US election,…
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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 (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…
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Transparency Report (December 2022)
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 December 31, we tallied roughly 36,750 friends on sfba.social. This is an increase of about 5,000 users during the month. From…
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2022 Year-End Update
2022 is coming to an end, so let’s reflect on it from an SFBA perspective. Most of you probably don’t know that our sfba.social instance was created in December 2019. However, what we experienced in 2022 can only be described as “phenomenal”, “astounding”, “assuring”, “inspiring”, or simply “AWESOME”. We grew from roughly 1500 friends at…