Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 21

Good morning!!

Bullish on cat pics

31.37% of Mastodon users are on servers updated to 2.6.1 (latest until today), 25.78% on 2.4.0, 12.17% on 2.5.0, 9.16% on 2.5.2.

12.11% are on forks that use a different versioning scheme.

RIP @VersionObserverBot, you were a good bot. #Mastodon_Upgrade_Battle

There is a feature request asking Mastodon to strip out custom emojis from display names. What's the problem with them? Mostly it's about spoofing Twitter's verified badge, which is not a problem for experienced users but continuously trips up new people. However, that occurs even with ✅. The other problem is it's annoying how emojis are read out on screen readers. So maybe we should just strip out all emojis from display names?

Poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/16904809

Hello please use the report function on spam instead of @'ing me about it. It's faster to handle that way.

A cat cafe cat that is not very interested in being pet being pet a bit

Good morning!

Today I visited a cat cafe with @kitkat ? https://mastodon.social/media/7kNWueI-XWPpwGmkZWc https://mastodon.social/media/5EiUHq4LAa2tgkoO1dg

It's snowing!!

I can't wait to hug a cat

Spent the last two hours troubleshooting server issues. Home feed delays are resolved now, outward federation is catching up now (2mil items backlog). Sorry for the inconvenience ?

From Tumblr to Mastodon: 5 reasons to switch

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/11/from-tumblr-to-mastodon/

Hey does anyone remember what steps Tumblr previously took against NSFW blogs? I distinctly remember there being some, but not the details. Might put it in a potential blog post.

Seems like Tumblr just nuked all adult artists from their platform

Please favourite, boost and follow

Sometimes I wonder if the word "boost" is just too alien, like if you're telling someone outside of Mastodon that you're boosting something, what do they think you're talking about. It was "reblog" originally. Oh well

@tomas This is amazing. I put up my work as AGPL, promote ActivityPub and its other implementations, promote independent Mastodon apps, but if I dare have a personal vision for the kind of work I'm doing, I'm worse than facebook.

I want to eat there...

Added new emoji: :pika: