2026-04-11T22:57:10Z https://yabu.me trumpet@mas.to https://yabu.me/npub19vfus2uc2xplyepkw843f0w3u0ysamlrsncsrvqjnm808d0x635qlzlppg https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/4274462f4d1a001b.png https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/4274462f4d1a001b.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9uqxg22vc8esy8tpej8zd3ssav2sxw62zwp0uhd7svgjdkgkczuszyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xs0md4c5 Hello everyone! We had a rough week last week, with two horrible accounts using our instance as a platform to spread hate, and an outage when we tried to upgrade to v4.5.0. Both of these really bothered us, so after a period of reflection, we&#39;ve decided to make some changes.<br/><br/>We want to focus on making mas.to the best instance we can for our existing users (many of whose donations keep us running!) and their friends. And so we&#39;re moving to an invitation-only model until further notice.<br/><br/>(1/4) 2025-11-14T12:57:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswxrlgs9lega96xe3xd67pmgfhcs9lqa3qvvghw44n52twqmv3fjqzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xskgaccx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hgxccv8mqu0usal3sljjgnlt5n5zaqm3yzhu7chedw746hmy77qt6qanf'>nevent1q…qanf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not blocked at our end! 2025-09-10T21:22:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsttqxq3umd4gg6tztfhylaxvmm480czczus2sz4fskj07y8evfsngzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsk4cmrv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst88a6j89ryrwrv0pv9y6dhmfnkthk4xa3eq8rztcy096ew9enxrcs9hpdr'>nevent1q…hpdr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We are, but we’ve also had a handful of accounts that are almost certainly scams. Our moderators are working with contacts who can vouch for validated individuals, but this is onerous and not foolproof. Regarding the account you mentioned earlier, this has already been validated with us and we’ve put a note on the account to confirm. 2025-09-10T21:21:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxy3fz2gm0dgnc7298rxuafaapdlpyk4tgyfstwuxjwv2p547fnpqzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xs52576e HEY FOLKS ❤️😎<br/><br/>To keep providing this service to you we need to keep the servers running, and to keep the servers running we need this thing called &#39;money&#39;, and to get the &#39;money&#39; we need to ask you really nicely every month to give us some &#39;money&#39;.<br/><br/>Many of you donate already, and whether that&#39;s by regular subscription or one-off payments we&#39;re hugely grateful! You are awesome ☺️<br/><br/>For anyone else who&#39;d like to donate, you can do so easily via Ko-Fi at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/trumpet">https://ko-fi.com/trumpet</a><br/><br/>Thank you! 2025-07-02T16:41:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvhzq79qd6u3t8y8ak8dctc0x6ud04ysw8xhqzqy2ljmd8t03tzjqzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xse5el0w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspe3ehsrfagu034dt7yu0tlzwnj3k8gy2m77anvncllv2e26g8j0scsw2x7'>nevent1q…w2x7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Speaking from a Mastodon perspective, a &#39;clean&#39; shutdown of an instance should involved the self-destruct process, although I appreciate that&#39;s not always possible. And yes, from a technical perspective posts are just text in a DB so I&#39;m not too bothered about the resource implications, and old media from remote instances is pruned after a certain period. But I agree it&#39;s &#39;messy&#39; where orphaned statuses/accounts are floating out there. 2024-11-18T12:03:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsywhj4w2r3ssql5p920h5rqchd5yhrrc243pymjj39crt3fk008fqzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsyatjkw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsglypgpts0u6uk3maeteyhcfmglffn8ystlhytnw38sy5vcahaj6s2ryky3'>nevent1q…yky3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>❤️☺️ 2024-11-10T21:50:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdd36x9k7nln2ps3hcs7muny0ldy6neqehe66y3urngkczpxsv47czyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsnjj9hy HELLO YOU!<br/><br/>Every month we reach out to our users with an important message about funding.<br/><br/>Donations from our users are our only source of funding. They cover our costs, but only just! We&#39;re hugely grateful to everyone who has supported us over the years.<br/><br/>If you&#39;d like to help support mas.to you can do so easily via Ko-Fi at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/trumpet">https://ko-fi.com/trumpet</a>. They accept card and PayPal payments, and you can make regular or one-off donations.<br/><br/>Thank you! 🙂 ❤️ 2024-11-04T12:21:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0l57fg52wuldtf9lx3yw2hz0jj8hnna0qcn3cdjrr8kvnngm8anczyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xs890raq We’re sad to hear that <a href="https://botsin.space">https://botsin.space</a> is going to be closing down in the near future.<br/><br/>If you host a bot there and would like to migrate it to mas.to, you’re welcome!<br/><br/>We do have one rule specific to bots:<br/><br/>“All automated (bot) accounts must enable the bot flag in their account preferences, respect #nobot markers, and post as unlisted unless making less than one post per hour.”<br/><br/>(The last bit is just to stop the public timeline getting flooded with bot posts.)<br/><br/>❤️<br/><br/>#BotsinSpace 2024-10-30T08:18:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrccr02fad524z8z8t5q6kmnjt7x880tkdmprzelamrc0zczptpjszyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xs7u7ww7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsznt7c6jwsqcpe2jn63watpfv7vmdan7marn8gj39q0mpk29hpseswlepmn'>nevent1q…epmn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I think I meant to post this one!)<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32408">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32408</a> 2024-10-25T13:15:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsznt7c6jwsqcpe2jn63watpfv7vmdan7marn8gj39q0mpk29hpseszyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xseqrw04 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw83ssyq9x2v5ahzuzlyw60ereatt2t9u9q2xndm24nn5dvasfvkgd03wkv'>nevent1q…3wkv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it might be related to this bug, and others related to it:<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32422">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32422</a> 2024-10-25T13:13:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsykvxyyvwt2etvv8sgnuad9yuc47eh7guxfv5wv5p477d43mqw7yszyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsjha92t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszp9075pkmxmhejem4wk2fqmrjq600ccdmv65de3dth9e3xhe85wq76pww6'>nevent1q…pww6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Possibly also related to this: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32422">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32422</a> 2024-10-24T10:30:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqzr99a4ju02r07vwfzzavs5wfk7ekyhycxa0jw9xa02fs0anxfwczyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsvh64kv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszp9075pkmxmhejem4wk2fqmrjq600ccdmv65de3dth9e3xhe85wq76pww6'>nevent1q…pww6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So you&#39;re seeing a little &#39;file&#39; icon like this instead of an actual picture?<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/361/919/069/977/531/original/1b4718229e8efd56.png"> <br/> 2024-10-24T10:26:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv44p8qgmht8yh8udzcgc5mehmwylr48k7m39g9xan606h7728uxqzyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsgtn37t HEY THERE FOLKS 🙂 <br/><br/>We&#39;ve just upgraded to Mastodon v4.3.0 which is a pretty chunky upgrade and has lots of new stuff and things.<br/><br/>More information about the stuff and things is here:<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0</a><br/><br/>Enjoy! ❤️ 2024-10-08T15:17:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszcc6yj2ml36cmhky057dg5z5pjrvfun0w28g3djq4t464t9cwrsczyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xslu67vh HELLO FRIENDS!<br/><br/>Another month is here (yes I&#39;m a few days late!) and it&#39;s time to do our monthly donation drive 🙂 <br/><br/>Donations from our users are our only source of funding. They cover our costs, but only just! We are tremendously grateful to everyone who has ever donated.<br/><br/>If you don&#39;t currently donate but would like to help with our costs, you can do so via Ko-Fi at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/trumpet">https://ko-fi.com/trumpet</a>. They accept card and PayPal payments. You can make regular or one-off donations.<br/><br/>Thank you! ❤️ 😎 2024-10-05T13:09:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvmp5g42ckqn7d4snsqlrehldwngxrj3lqdyp5t05wu4glzzp6y6czyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xscdt64f WELL HELLO AGAIN! It feels like it&#39;s been ages since I last messaged you 😛 <br/><br/>The Mastodon devs have just dropped Mastodon v4.2.12 which is a hotfix following Friday&#39;s v4.2.11 release.<br/><br/>We&#39;ve just applied this update so we&#39;re all up-to-date.<br/><br/>Enjoy!<br/><br/>More details here:<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.12">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.12</a> 2024-08-19T10:50:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr83zgy83m45nd0m87hyceve0f7m7yah9na8tu22s07kape2kzkxszyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xsfqnzk8 HI THERE FOLKS!<br/><br/>It&#39;s the start of August, and so it&#39;s time for our monthly donation drive!<br/><br/>mas.to is and always will be a free service, but it costs a lot of money to run! And as we grow our costs grow too.<br/><br/>The generosity of our donators keeps this server running. We genuinely couldn&#39;t do it without you!<br/><br/>If you don&#39;t already donate and would like to, you can do so via Ko-Fi (one-off or repeat donations by card/PayPal):<br/><a href="https://ko-fi.com/trumpet">https://ko-fi.com/trumpet</a><br/><br/>A huge THANK you to those who donate ❤️ 2024-08-05T11:49:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxxtl5prf6752jaz73jxcsyghzzsafjxutm8as9x6cckvql6ugh6czyq438jptnpgc8unyxec7k99a683ujrh0uwz0zqdsz20vaua4um2xs0lhm8l HELLO EVERYONE!<br/><br/>mas.to is and always will be a free service, but it costs a lot of money to run! And as we grow our costs grow too.<br/><br/>The generosity of our donators keeps this server running.<br/><br/>If you don&#39;t already donate and would like to, there are a few ways you can do it:<br/><br/>Ko-Fi (one-off or repeat donations by card/PayPal):<br/><a href="https://ko-fi.com/trumpet">https://ko-fi.com/trumpet</a><br/><br/>Bitcoin: bc1qz4nyn09vl9uzye67nr20u8uccvku6g8grvnpx4<br/><br/>Ethereum: 0x4cFf1Af8A322507E2ef8ac1b8Cb9a539aD8671fB<br/><br/>THANK YOU! ☺️❤️ 2024-01-03T12:09:10Z