Bye bye folks and thanks for being such nice citizens. t-2.5

Reminder: home.social is going to close on June 16th, 2023 at 23:59 CET. Please migrate / move your accounts to a new instance to keep followers/following.

Friendly reminder: home.social is winding down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate (move) your accounts. Ralf has already moved to @ralf -- Docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.

Fellow home.social people, we've upgraded to the latest release 4.1.0 without any downtime. Enjoy your onward journey!

The problem seems to have been resolved but we keep an eye on our monitoring. Sorry for any inconvenience!

We are seeing issues with federating to beta.mstdn.cf flooding our ingress queues. Blocking to see wether it helps.

Just to be clear: HOME.social encourages you to share links to your other social outlets as much and as frequently as you want. No need to obfuscate. Just post along as you like! :)

Every once in a while we're recommending a fellow HOME.social citizen. If you're new here, follow @vowe! Chances are, you've already been reading him elsewhere. https://vowe.net/2022/12/18/breaking-twitter/ And if you've been around for a while, check him out, too.

We are growing. Is everyone okay?

If you came here from this other service and want your birdsite followers to re-find you on Mastodon, putting your Mastodon handle in your twitter bio in the format [at]ralf[at]home.social helps. This format does not (yet) get blocked by Musk. Feel free to boost for reach.

A warm welcome to the more than 500 new people who signed up within the past six hours! Welcome home. #newhere #mastoadmin

Mozilla Observatory gives us an A+ ranking and internet.nl yields 100%. Gotta go into the engine room and hug our tech staff! ❤️

This is how we monitor HOME.social Mastodon performance. The graphs showing CPU usage of the key Mastodon services. Automatic alerts notify us in case we run into performance issues. #mastoadmin

Would you like HOME.social to support posts longer than the default 500 characters defined by out-of-the-box Mastodon?

instances.social reports a 98,97% uptime and an A+ rating for both HTTP/S and OBS for HOME.social.

We experienced some issues with new humans not being able to register this morning. Upon investigation, we couldn't see any issues on our end and have opened an issue in the Mastodon code repository. Registrations should be fine again. (They started working again, without any changes from our side.)

Hi! Your admin here! Some home.social buddies have voiced concerns to donate via Patreon and asked for alternatives. We decided to experiment with Liberapay; a completely open source platform. home.social will always remain free to use. Should you want to donate, there's now an alternative to Patreon. https://liberapay.com/RottmannVentures/ (We intentionally don't include tons of marketing copy, since we don't want to seduce anybody into donating.)

Good Morning everyone! Wishing you a good start into another week! Thanks for being here and supporting HOME.social.

Because so many home.social folks DM'ed my boss (@ralf): Using home.social will remain free and ads free forever. If you do want to support our work, we've set up a Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/homesocial/about Thanks for trusting us with being your Mastodon home.