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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …