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2022-12-20 Everything has been running more or less smoothly through the latest Twitter exodus deluges, as far as we can tell.
There are no known issues.

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Most recent day-journal entry (probably): 2022/11/18

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Mew is a community wiki 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.

A Brief Directory

• Mew:About: what this wiki is about
  • .cat: about the TLD
  • Help:Contribute: how to help keep us running
• Directories:
  • Instances
    • cat: cat-related things on the fediverse
    • witches: witchy instances
• woozle: ye olde sysoppe
  • woozle/malusers: list of fediverse trolls, ideologues, and jerks

Old Site News

• 2020/03/31 site TootCat 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. Borked by an upgrade; haven't had time to fix.
• 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
  • Toot.Cat is successfully migrated to a new server and the latest version of Mastodon.
  • LottieVixen joins TootCat as sysadmin
• 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
  • Apparently mastodon.cloud has been down for over a week, a new toot.cat user reports. So has instance.business. I've inquired.
  • A lot of anger and resentment has brewed between Gargron and marginalized users over issues with Mastodon design and governance.
• 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.