Posts in 2024
  • 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 …

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  • The Israel-Palestine War

    Sunday, June 09, 2024 in Posts

    Hey Hachyderm, Before we get started, we wanted to acknowledge that it’s been a while since we’ve written a blog post. Thank you for your patience! We’ve made a content plan and you should expect to see more activity through the …

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  • A Minute from the Moderators

    Sunday, January 14, 2024 in Posts

    We hope everyone had a wonderful and safe new year celebration! In today’s moderator minutes we will be focused on the continuing conversations around Threads and how Hachyderm moderation is continuing to expand our collaboration with our community. …

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Posts in 2023
  • Threads Update

    Saturday, December 23, 2023 in Announcements

    What is Threads? Threads is an online social media and social networking service operated by Meta Platforms. The app offers users the ability to post and share text, images, and videos, as well as interact with other users’ posts through …

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  • Security incident: Redis cache exposed to public internet

    Sunday, July 16, 2023 in Incidents

    Background Between July 9 and July 16, 2023, one of Hachyderm’s Redis cache servers was exposed to the public internet. On July 16, 2023, the Hachyderm Infrastructure team identified a misconfiguration of our firewall on the cache server which …

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  • A Minute from the Moderators

    Friday, July 07, 2023 in Posts

    Hello and welcome to this month’s Moderator Minutes. Apologies for missing June, we have a blog post that we’ll post later this month as a belated post for June. The short version is we were completing that one while compiling for this one, and a lot …

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  • Crypto Spam Attacks on Fediverse

    Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in Announcements

    The Situation Starting around 8 May 2023, we began to receive reports that Mastodon Social was being inundated with crypto spam. Initially, it appeared that only Mastodon Social, and then Mastodon World, were impacted. In each case we Limited the …

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  • A Minute from the Moderators

    Monday, May 08, 2023 in Posts

    Hello Hachydermia! It’s time for, you guessed it, the monthly Moderator Minute! Recently, our founder and former admin stepped down. As sad as we are to see her go, this does provide an excellent segue into the topics that we wanted to cover in …

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  • Moderation Postmortem

    Tuesday, May 02, 2023 in Incidents

    Hello Hachydermians! There has been a lot of confusion this week, so we’re writing up this blog post to be both a postmortem of sorts and a single source of truth. This is partly to combat some of the problems generated by hearsay: hearsay generates …

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  • Stepping Down From Hachyderm

    Sunday, April 30, 2023 in Posts

    Stepping Down From Hachyderm Recently I abruptly removed myself from the “Admin” position of Hachyderm. This has surfaced a number of threads about me, Hachyderm, and the broader Fediverse. Today I would like to offer an apology as well …

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