Earlier today, our registrar had a bit of an issue (still trying to figure out what). That took down the entire ourselves.space ecosystem. We’re working on increasing redundancy where we can. This happened at the registrar level, so, improvement here may take a bit.
If you are a Chrome user, you've probably been been opted-in to Google's enhanced tracking system without any warning.
Chrome's newest update pretends to provide users "Enhanced ad privacy", but actually enrolls Chrome users into a new trackings system.
To disable Google's "advanced" ad tracking, go to Settings>Privacy and Security>Ad Privacy and disable all three options there (Ad Topics, Site-suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement).
Network alert - ourselves.space services getting a teeny patch right now. You may see a hiccup! #mastoadmin
A bit strange - we just had an outage on our main proxy server. Back up, but unacceptable. Going to do some research to see what was cooking. Apologies for the inconvenience. Total outage was ~11 minutes.
#NeoVibe update: We've been whitelisted on thedoodleproject relay and joining 400+ other instances in federation.
Tooting along in the #fediverse is just so much better than the other place. My mental health has been materially better since I disconnected from that place in November. If you're still on the fence, join us over here on https://ourselves.space, it's a great place to be!
I'll take "this is why we don't allow our kids to have phones in their rooms" for $100 Alex. https://www.bark.us/blog/ask-titania-omegle/ #family #familysafety #internet
If you want your local media outlets to open fedi accounts, maybe post links to their stories, so the people monitoring site stats see incoming traffic from here.
@jaz is it possible yall's matrix server is blocking federation or doesn't have it's .well-known set? Can't seem to connect to you from my server.
@renchap @derek @jaz This is a great read and I like the idea of "federating out" even components of mastodon. Do you think that it'd be a "faster time to market" to bake this model into the product or to develop a simple csam scanner feature directly into mastodon requiring only a PhotoDNA API key during setup?
@renchap @jaz Will start reading your ideas and agreed, would need a good design before any implementation. Also, hi @jaz - this is an issue near to my heart (and part of why my company exists - to protect kids from the evils of big tech and specifically create safe places for kids that need social media. How can we help? What do you need?
Hi #mastoadmin - anyone willing to work with our company on proposing a PR to #mastodon to add #PhotoDNA scanning feature for inbound messages to help prevent the scourge of #csam? We're not developers, but might be able to help fund/promote a type of hook/API call or maybe even a PhotoDNA account for smaller instances to use that helps auto report to #ncmec ... reach out if interested.
Context:https://tinyurl.com/k782myaz
Give us a boost for reach?
It's a great day to not run your own #fediverse instance - join https://www.ourselves.space for free, or, for a small monthly fee, bring your own domain to the fediverse without running a server: https://www.thedoodleproject.com/singleuser for more!
Elk is being promoted in the Microsoft Store this week! If you're a Windows user, leave us a rating or review for Elk there! It would help new users visiting the product page when evaluating whether to try Elk (and/or @Mastodon) for the first time! 🧡
A big shoutout to the MS Store team for making this happen! 🙌
Well, that was weird, we just restarted the main ourselves.space instance after a flood of errors came through - maybe some junk traffic that we weren't properly handling. All appears well. Holler if anything seems amiss!
Periodic reminder that @jerry also maintains Lemmy (Reddit replacement) instance infosec.pub where I moderate https://infosec.pub/c/exploitdev exploit development link aggregation community aiming to collect the most juicy technical links on vulnerability research, reverse engineering and exploit writing. Come join us!
And, bonus! If you want to bring your own authenticated domain to the #fediverse and be (you)(at)(yourdomain.com) - without running your own server, we got you! https://www.thedoodleproject.com/singleuser to learn more.
It's a great day in the #fediverse! We've got stable services for you as you join in. Moving servers is no problem here! We've got #writefreely, #peertube, #bookwyrm, and #mastodon compatible feeds. Visit https://www.ourselves.space to learn more!
Here's an update to our post two days ago regarding our initial vibes about Threads by Meta. As we continue to learn more, we'll keep updating. The graphic below represents DuckDuckGo's analysis of what this app is doing on your phone. If unchanged, this app represents a veritable Hoover Vacuum of spying and tracking. Forget our semi-competing product for a moment - this is like shockingly bad. Apple and Android should pull the app from the store. Please keep your children far away from this.
