meemu org admin @meemu@meemu.org

Lots of folks are looking beyond Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Here's a slew of other options to explore.
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/quitting-twitter-try-these-alternative-social-media-networks

if you're a small instance and need some way to send confirmation email, and you can't just use your ISPs obscure email service - I can set you up with an SMTP account on my server that I use for all domains

Remember that you implicitly trust whoever runs that service though, so while it could easily handle 2000 outgoing emails a day, you probably don't want to trust me with that

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Question #mastoadmin folk: whats the best way to get broader federation on a new instance these days? New server has a decent start but I hesitate to install a follow bot and relays seem messy.

any other #mastoadmin s notice their traffic went up?

Hello new faces and old! I know we’ve had some new and returning folks lately, don’t forget to give yourself a quick refresh on our rules here: https://meemu.org/about/more and definitely ask any of the staff ( @catgoat @Salem @piggy and @Sig or just DM this account) if you have any questions! 💜💜💜

Recently, several users expressed a desire for a way to quickly check if the images in the toot they were about to boost were described. It would be nice if Mastodon itself offered warnings for that, as well as for forgetting to describe media in your own posts, but until then, this is actually one problem admins can fix on our own!
All you need to do is go into the site settings and add a bit of CSS code that will display a red border around any undescribed media. There are two examples available, depending on how subtle or noticeable you want the border to be; experiment and see what you like!
https://gist.github.com/FiXato/3de505b04efefd49a1e3568b70545234
Thanks to @IngaLovinde for thinking of the starting code and @FiXato for improving on it! They did all the work here; I am just sharing this along.
Open this post in a new tab and look at the image to see how this can look like. The example image is my avatar, described in another pinned post.
#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

Announcement: The #Fedivision Song Contest is open for original submissions of music from now until Friday, 28th of May, 23:59 UTC! Please send your artist name, song name, your chosen ficitional country and a link to your song to this account here, I'll collect everything!

Voting will take place from Saturday, 29th 12:00 (noon) UTC to Sunday, 30th, 12:00!

Requesting a whole bunch of posts (user-agent is already in my bad bots list, so it's just getting HTTP 503 responses):

IP address: 176.9.5.87 (RDNS ninja-crawler14.webmeup.com)
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BLEXBot/1.0; +http://webmeup-crawler.com/)

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Google is a "cornerstone sponsor" of FOSDEM this year, which is being run entirely on Matrix, accessible on Android via Element, which has just been pulled from Google's Play Store. FOSDEM is in a week. This all makes perfect sense.

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#mastoadmin if you run a region or locale-based server, please let me know so we can add to the map at http://u.osmfr.org/m/550053/