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'''Mew''' is a community wiki<ref name=other /> for the {{l/pub|Mastoverse}}, with a focus on helping complicated people to be kind to each other.
 
'''Mew''' is a community wiki<ref name=other /> for the {{l/pub|Mastoverse}}, with a focus on helping complicated people to be kind to each other.
  
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It's also the official wiki for '''{{l/pub|toot.cat}}''', and we have started a '''{{l/pub|cat|directory of cat-related things}}''' on the fediverse.
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We also offer space for Catalonian/Catalan interests, in order to help satisfy the {{l/pub|.cat}} TLD requirements.
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==Public Pages==
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* [[Pub]]: index
 
* [[Mew:About]]: what this wiki is about
 
* [[Mew:About]]: what this wiki is about
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** {{l/pub|.cat}}: about the TLD
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** [[Help:Contribute]]: how to help keep us running
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* '''Directories''':
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** {{l/pub|cat}}: cat-related things
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** {{l/cat|Instances}} (private namespace, logged-in users only)
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*** {{l/pub|witches}}: witchy instances
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* {{l/pub|user/woozle}}: Woozle's public pages
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** {{l/pub|user/woozle/malusers}}: list of fediverse trolls, ideologues, and jerks
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==Site News==
 
==Site News==
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* '''{{l/pub|2020-03-31}}''' site going down for an upgrade
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* '''2018-10-11''' We now have a Hubzilla instance online at {{ls/domain|hub.toot.cat}}! It federates with Mastodon and Diaspora.
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* '''2018-08-15''' We've upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, compiled Ruby with jemalloc for improved performance, and also upgraded to the latest Mastodon.
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** Apparently its the Gems that take most of the time.
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** Also, {{l/mastodon|kity|toot.cat}} did all the work and has rejoined the TootCat team after a prolonged absence.
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* '''2018-07-25''' We've had more waves of spambot registrations -- yesterday morning and this morning. SOP seems to be handling the problem. It would be nice if we could set a toggle to auto-silence new users during these attacks, because doing it by hand is time-consuming and also allows them a window of attack (which, fortunately, they aren't good at exploiting) between when they register and when I notice it.
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* '''2018-06-02''' The last new spambot account was recorded at 1:20pm (probably EDST) on this day. They stopped quite abruptly.
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* '''2018-05-30''' The SSL certificate failed to renew on the new server. [https://htyp.org/User:Woozle/toot.cat/2018/05/30 Four hours later], I fixed it.
 
* '''2018-05-22''' spambots began creating accounts on toot.cat; we soon implemented a policy of immediately suspending any of these that tooted spam links, and silencing the rest.
 
* '''2018-05-22''' spambots began creating accounts on toot.cat; we soon implemented a policy of immediately suspending any of these that tooted spam links, and silencing the rest.
 
** There were a few dozen accounts created as of evening the next day.
 
** There were a few dozen accounts created as of evening the next day.
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==Mastodon News==
 
==Mastodon News==
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* '''2018-07-03''' The #ForkTogether project now has [https://forktogether.space/mw/Main_Page a wiki].
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* '''2018-06-02'''
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** Apparently {{l/pub|mastodon.cloud}} has been down for over a week, a new toot.cat user [https://toot.cat/@RefurioAnachro/100134355499771070 reports]. So has {{l/pub|instance.business}}. I've [https://toot.cat/@woozle/100135333273070380 inquired].
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** A lot of anger and resentment has brewed between Gargron and marginalized users over issues with {{l/pub|Mastodon}} design and governance.
 
* '''2018-04-30'''  
 
* '''2018-04-30'''  
 
** Sina of cutie.space [https://cutie.space/@sina/99947742204242184 announced] ([https://toot.cat/web/statuses/99947747955744248 cache]) that she will no longer be serving Mastodon from that domain, effective within a matter of hours, due to a decline in users, and will be [https://cutie.space/@sina/99947969008936246 replacing it] ([https://toot.cat/web/statuses/99947972279440819 cache)] with something less resource-intensive.
 
** Sina of cutie.space [https://cutie.space/@sina/99947742204242184 announced] ([https://toot.cat/web/statuses/99947747955744248 cache]) that she will no longer be serving Mastodon from that domain, effective within a matter of hours, due to a decline in users, and will be [https://cutie.space/@sina/99947969008936246 replacing it] ([https://toot.cat/web/statuses/99947972279440819 cache)] with something less resource-intensive.

Revision as of 23:42, 31 March 2020

Welcome to MediaWiki!

Meta

Mew is a community wiki[1] for the Mastoverse, with a focus on helping complicated people to be kind to each other.

It's also the official wiki for toot.cat, and we have started a directory of cat-related things on the fediverse.

We also offer space for Catalonian/Catalan interests, in order to help satisfy the .cat TLD requirements.

Public Pages

Site News

  • 2020-03-31 site going down for an upgrade
  • 2018-10-11 We now have a Hubzilla instance online at hub.toot.cat! It federates with Mastodon and Diaspora.
  • 2018-08-15 We've upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, compiled Ruby with jemalloc for improved performance, and also upgraded to the latest Mastodon.
    • Apparently its the Gems that take most of the time.
    • Also, @kity@toot.cat did all the work and has rejoined the TootCat team after a prolonged absence.
  • 2018-07-25 We've had more waves of spambot registrations -- yesterday morning and this morning. SOP seems to be handling the problem. It would be nice if we could set a toggle to auto-silence new users during these attacks, because doing it by hand is time-consuming and also allows them a window of attack (which, fortunately, they aren't good at exploiting) between when they register and when I notice it.
  • 2018-06-02 The last new spambot account was recorded at 1:20pm (probably EDST) on this day. They stopped quite abruptly.
  • 2018-05-30 The SSL certificate failed to renew on the new server. Four hours later, I fixed it.
  • 2018-05-22 spambots began creating accounts on toot.cat; we soon implemented a policy of immediately suspending any of these that tooted spam links, and silencing the rest.
    • There were a few dozen accounts created as of evening the next day.
  • 2018-05-20
    • 13:23 ET A long-overdue server reboot resulted in all message windows being depopulated. I retreated to the TootCave to focus on the problem.
    • 13:39 ET It turned out to be a misconfiguration in Nginx, and I don't know why it was even working before. See HTYP for details.
  • 2018-05-03 Email issues fixed. There nonetheless seems to be a deficit in Mastodon diagnostics.
  • 2018-05-01 Ongoing email issues are making me tear my hair out. (How appropriate for May Day!)
  • 2018-04-26
  • 2018-04-16: working on upgrade and migration
  • 2018-01-25: Mastodon software is up-to-date with no major issues.

Mastodon News

  • 2018-07-03 The #ForkTogether project now has a wiki.
  • 2018-06-02
  • 2018-04-30
    • Sina of cutie.space announced (cache) that she will no longer be serving Mastodon from that domain, effective within a matter of hours, due to a decline in users, and will be replacing it (cache) with something less resource-intensive.
    • witches.town goes offline
    • Woozle posts a reassurance that toot.cat will not be going away anytime soon.
  • 2018-04-27 Ginny McQueen of kitty.town posted on Medium asking for help; Woozle posted about it on Google+.
  • 2018-04-02 The sysop of witches.town announced that the site will be shutting down on April 30.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ There is at least one other Mastodon wiki.
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