Notices by Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod) (admin@todon.nl)

ℹ️ 🔕 Reminder for all people who care about a safe social media environment.

Since Mastodon version 4.3.0 there are new notifications defaults we are not able to configure server wide. 'Unsolicited private mentions' and 'Moderated accounts' are both set to 'Filter'. We advice you to set both of these to 'Ignore'.

The reasons are that 'Unsolicited private mentions' (aka 'Unsolicited direct messages') are very spam and harass sensitive. We believe that users should explicitly allow this, so we find this a bad default. A filter means that you are still forced to review this notification, with the spammer or harasser still getting their way.

'Moderated accounts' are accounts that are limited for a good reason (probably someone reported them) or accounts that belong to a Mastodon/fediverse server that is limited/silenced (also for a good reason). Those accounts and servers are not that problematic that we had to suspend them, but still problematic enough that we had to hide them or give you a warning when you visit their profile. Although you can still follow them if you like fierce discussions. So for the most of us there is no reason to see those accounts on our timelines and we also don't want to be notified about their existence via filters.

#feditips #mastodon #OnlineSafety

Although a lot of people in the eXodus are moving to the (similarly) American capitalist #Bluesky, we on Todon.eu and Todon.nl are also growing. People being here (new or coming back) made the right choice. The #fediverse is currently the only federated non-commercial/non-capitalist social network, powered by the #ActivityPub protocol, a W3C open standard.

In short: don't believe the hype!

@MediaActivist Of course. As long as it's from a leftist non-authoritarian viewpoint @theleftfist is welcome on todon.nl.

🎉 The results about the question if todon.eu and todon.nl should federate with #Meta's #Threads (if that will ever be the case) are in!

➡️ Total votes: 264

✅ Yes: 32 (12.1%)

🚫 No: 232 (87.9%)

Congratulations for the people who don't want to federate. Sorry for those 32 people who wanted to federate. It's your choice of course if you want to move to another server or not.

@FediPact Can you please add todon.eu and todon.nl to your list?