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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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…