Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 3

I'm terribly sorry for today's downtime. We are now back.

Post-mortem:

Yesterday my hosting provider, Hetzner, received an abuse report for our entire IP due to a user account that apparently was used as a botnet controller. I suspended the account immediately, but forgot to submit a statement to Hetzner.

After 24 hours, the IP to mastodon.social was locked by Hetzner. I've reached out to them as soon as I learned of this.

:sabakan:

On Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license.

According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked.

More context: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/

A small victory: An hour after we sent a cease & desist letter to #Gab's legal team on Oct 21 regarding their failure to publish up-to-date source code in compliance with Mastodon's AGPLv3 license, they have uploaded a new version.

That is not all that we demanded in the letter, but it is nevertheless a victory in upholding the AGPLv3 license of our project, and a signal to those who doubt that we are willing to show teeth to those who ignore it.

More context: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/

Working on something I've wanted to do for a long time but never got around to... putting graphs on the admin dashboard.

Work in progress #mastodev

It's become quite a bit more complicated since I posted that screenshot, but it is ready now.

#mastodev

We reached 10K downloads of the official Mastodon app for iOS!

@noellabo :amogus:

Good morning!

I found Skype is allowed to be called "Skype for iPhone" so maybe "Mastodon for iPhone" will work and save me this headache. Still thinking about a subtitle though.

Picking a title for the App Store page is not easy. Just "Mastodon" is taken by someone - I can't find who or what. So needs more words. "for iOS" is redundant and not permitted. "Decentralized" is so long it doesn't leave any characters for the noun. Besides, I don't want any technical jargon. Any words that a random internet user won't immediately recognize. Twitch has it so easy with its "Twitch: Live Game Streaming". Short and clear.

What do you think about that hidden dislikes on replies idea that Twitter is testing?

Here's a demo of the sign-up process in the Mastodon for iOS app, recorded by @DavidBlue :thinkhappy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8GQvNrE7E

Do you think it would be helpful if you could select which rule you think a post/account has violated when making a report instead of having to type it out by hand?

Also since Mastodon gGmbH is a real legal entity now and I am its CEO I am actually the CEO of Mastodon now. Sorry for ruining the jokes.

Thanks to the generous help of the previous owner of the mastodon username on GitHub, our GitHub organization has finally been renamed to mastodon! ????

I know that changing the repository URL is a bother but I think it’s worth it and better done sooner than later. Tootsuite was not serious and had no connection to our actual name.

@grishka Time to fix your rendering

I am feeling absolutely fine but every person I've talked to (incl. social media) is expecting me to feel sick after the second vaccine so if I wasn't gonna feel anything I'm afraid now I might get it psychosomatically

I added a newsletter form to the original blog post about the Mastodon #iOS app ????

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/02/developing-an-official-ios-app-for-mastodon/

Oh no, I'm going to have to create a whole new website for the app and then put the form there, won't I...

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