Tag: sfba
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Planned downtime
Dear #SFBA Community, We are in need of a little downtime to clean up the database server after all the complications in the last couple of weeks.We will take SFBA Mastodon offline between 8pm and 9pm tomorrow (Sunday Nov 3rd) evening. We encourage you to check out the SFBA Book Club during that time –…
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October 23, 2024 Unplanned Outage and Recovery
Hello SFBA.social! 🌉 We want to be transparent with you about the recent downtime on SFBA. We’ve been working behind the scenes on some important infrastructure changes, and we ran into some issues. 🔧 What Happened? ☀️ The good news: Even with the database crash, we didn’t lose any data. Your posts, follows, and everything…
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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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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.…