meow.social Annouce @TransparencyReports@meow.social

Update:
The issue has been resolved, and emails should be back on their way.
Might get a little spammy while the queue is being processed.
-NK

It appears meow emails are not being sent out to users, including follow requests and account verification emails.
We're investigating the issue, and will manually confirm accounts until it's resolved.
If your account is set to get follow requests, please check them manually every so often so you don't miss those.
We apologize and will try and sort this out ASAP.
-NK

New instance silenced:
sinblr (dot) com

Reason:
Untagged public NSFW medias

-NK

You may notice that the "Meow!" button is now back!

MEOW!

New instance silenced:
humblr (dot) social

Reason:
Public NSFW medias in the fediverse

-JN

We had a backup synchronization problem for 3 days, without detecting it.

We are currently running a complete and healthy backup to avoid a future problem.

No data was lost. i'm going to fix it now.
#SchrödingerBackups

We have a lot of user registration and our instance is suffering from abnormal activity.

meow.social is very slow, the time to absorb this peak of activity. We are sorry for any problems that may occur.

Since we have a lot of users joining meow.social because of Tumblr's announcement to remove pornographic content ...

Feel free to read our rules about the types of media allowed, how to post them, and what we forbid.

https://meow.social/about/more

We are here to help you. Do not hesitate to come and talk to us (in DM): @Tiwy57 & @Nomaxice

-JN

New instance suspended:
not (dot) phrack (dot) fyi

Reason:
No moderation

-NK

New instance suspended:
baraag (dot) net

Reason:
Allows non-CW porn, including implying underaged porn of fictional characters

-NK

New instance suspended:
albin (dot) social

Reason:
Datamining/tracking for ad targeting
Not stating they are a Mastodon fork clearly
Very bad account policy (paid accounts to remove ads)
Rules and tos are not on about/more but external site

-NK

Meow social has been updated to 2.5.2.
-NK

New instance suspended:
newjack (dot) city

Reason:
Suspected datamining, no rules, no human user

-NK

We made a choice regarding fonts emojos.

While they can be fun to use, we think there is too big a risk for spam.
But more importantly, it also means it can make it hell for those with screen readers or other conditions, and would require a CW that may not be respected by everyone, even unknowingly.

Thus for now, we won't add any fonts emojos, we hope you understand, we may reconsider our position later, but currently, user accessibility and spam are our main concerns regarding them.

-NK

Instance rules updated:

-Rgarding the CW and post privacy regarding previously called "AD posts" to clarify and update our take on the matter.

-Correction Of misspellings, and overall clarify of the text.

-Addition of the newly suspended instance.

You may read the updated ruleset at https://meow.social/about/more
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

-NK

New instance suspended:
socnet (dot) supes (dot) com

Reason:
No proper rules or moderation

-NK

We are now on the v2.5.0RC1 version of Mastodon, wich support Federation Relays

We have activated the yiff.social relay.

CHANGELOG : https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.0rc1

⚠️ We will update to Mastodon v2.5.0RC1 in a few minutes.

ℹ️ The SSL Certificate has been renewed on the new server.

(And of course, Mastodon was compiled with jemalloc, which limits the memory footprint to have more capacity)