A Minute from the Moderators
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 in Posts
How we can support our communities Hello and welcome to the new year! I hope everyone was able to find sources of rest and recouperation towards the end of the year. As we kick things off, I’d like to talk about community support. As …
A Minute from the Moderators
Monday, October 27, 2025 in Posts
How can you use mental health to protect yourself online? Boundaries Boundaries are a mental health tool for understanding your personal limits. If you feel like you are reaching your personal limits with regularity these days, you likely already …
A Minute from the Moderators
Saturday, July 05, 2025 in Posts
Hello Hachydermia! It’s been a while since we had one of these, and we thank you for your patience. We have more posts queued up on additional topics, but as promised we’ve been handling a sign up wave so we wanted to take time to explain …
Pixelfed Vulnerability and Impacts to Federation
Thursday, April 03, 2025 in Announcements
A recent Pixelfed vulnerability and how it impacts Hachyderm. If you’re an instance admin and need to reach out to us to refederate, please skip to the “For mods and admins” section (linked on the right nav menu). Information about the vulnerability …
Defederation from Threads
Thursday, January 09, 2025 in Announcements
Defederating from Threads Hello Hachyderm! In alignment with our prior posts about inter-instance federation, and Threads in particular, Hachyderm has defederated with Threads due to their changes in moderation policy as of the publication of this …
Ensuring Hachyderm's Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure
Friday, November 29, 2024 in Posts
Preamble/Disclaimer This document has **not **been reviewed by a lawyer and must not be considered legal advice. Hachyderm and its volunteer staff will make a best effort to keep Hachyderm running and safe from government interference, but we cannot …
Hachyderm's Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions
Sunday, September 01, 2024 in Posts
Hello Hachydermia and broader Fediverse! Thank you for your patience with this blog post, which is about Moderation Reports and Actions. It is significantly longer than the other blog posts will be in this series for a couple reasons: Multiple …
Hachyderm's Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: Part 1
Monday, August 12, 2024 in Posts
Hello Hachydermia! There has been recent, extensive, interest in Mastodon’s moderation tooling and moderation in the Fediverse in general. As part of that conversation, it became apparent that the built-in Mastodon moderation tools aren’t …
MastodonForHarris Hashtag and Mutual Aid Awareness Campaign
Monday, July 29, 2024 in Posts
Hello Hachyderm! This blog post is a copy of a Hachyderm Announcement made by the Hachyderm Moderation Team earlier today. The purpose of copying to the blog is to make it more accessible, due to its length. Hello all! We have somewhat long …
Hachyderm and Nivenly
Sunday, July 07, 2024 in Posts
Hey Hachyderm! We’re continuing to post on more important topics as previously promised. For today’s topic, we wanted to cover something that we know a lot of people have had questions about, the relationship between Hachyderm and …