✨Plush✨ City Announcements @announcements@plush.city

🔸Henlo soff frens!! Thank you for all of your reports of spammers in the past few days!

🔹 Seems like there's a bunch of them all of a sudden! ;o;

🔸 Yeah, it seems there's been a campaign to try to spam the fediverse, but y'all are doing a great job of stomping it out! So far in most cases (thanks to sending reports to the offending instances), the spammer was suspended before we could take action.

🔹 Yeah!! You're doing great, folks! Keep it up! ^.^

🔸 Mastodon 2.9 just released (🎉) and it comes with a pretty significant UI change -- a new "single column layout!" We'll likely be updated to it in the next few days. More here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

🔹 I don't like it!!! >.<

🔸 Hon, you haven't even tried it ye-

🔹 I don't like change!!

🔸 Well good news! You can switch back to the old layout in the "Appearance" Preferences page by clicking "Enable advanced web interface." ^^

🔹 Oh thank goodness! ^.^

🔹 Henlo soff frens! ^.^

🔸 We're pleased to announce that our designer-in-chief has taken some time to give our public facing website some much needed TLC after the new Mastodon homepage broke our previous customizations. ^^

🔹 It looks so much more ✨soff✨ now! ^.^

🔸 As always, please let us know if you encounter any issues related to these changes, and stay ✨soff✨ out there!! ^^

🔹 Henlo frens! ^.^ It's been a while!

🔸 Yes hello!! ^^ We just wanted to let you know that we've updated our custom CSS to make mentions and follows stand out a bit more in contrast to favorites and boosts!

🔹 There's been a bunch of Masto updates and it wasn't looking quite as nice as it used to but it's all fixed now!

🔸 We even squished and condensed things a bit more! Let us know what you think, and thanks for joining us here at ✨Plush✨ City! ^^

🔸 Our hosting providers have upgraded us to Mastodon 2.7, and that mea-

🔹 NEW FEATURES!!! ^.^

🔸 Yeah!! ^^ There's now a "Profile Directory" (https://plush.city/explore)! Here's how it works!

🔹 It's all opt-in!! So you're only there if you wanna be!

🔸 To add yourself to the directory, just check the box in settings->profile.

🔹 Then any #tags you put in your bio will show up in the directory list for you! ^.^

🔸 Enjoy, soff frens! ^^

🔹 As a reminder, If you see someone acting in a way that violates our code of conduct (https://plush.city/about/more/#code-of-conduct), please report 'em!! We'll sort 'em out for you. ^.^

🔸As always, you can view a full list of instances we've suspended here: https://plush.city/about/more/#suspended-instances

🔹 We're doin' these updates in batches now!
🔸 Here's who we've cut off over the past few weeks:

⛔️ honey.church: Instance based on Aphobic and Transphobic ideology
⛔️ mobile.co: White Nationalist/Fascist Ideology
⛔️ wagesofsinisdeath.com: Christian Themed White Nationalist/Fascist Ideology
⛔️ freespeech.firedragonstudios.com: White Nationalist/Fascist Ideology
⛔️ freespeechextremist.com: White Nationalist/Fascist Ideology
⛔️ sinblr.com: Untagged, uncensored NSFW content

🔶 We have suspended the instance at greenlifeplus.net from federating with our community. The instance represents a resort and is suspected to be both spamming other users as well as scraping data about users on Mastodon.

🔷 And we don't stand for that kinda crap! >.<

🔶 Nope! ^^

This instance (especially this bot https://mstdn.foxfam.club/@d3vnull) was clearly purpose-built to put the views & beliefs of white nationalists and fascists onto our timelines.

We here at ✨Plush✨ City are opposed to white nationalism and fascism in all its forms. As such, we actively work to de-platform white nationalists, whenever possible. This is such an act; we encourage other #mastoadmin folks to join us in solidarity.

🔶 We favorite everything you post ^^

🔷 Yeah!! We're big fans!! ^.^

🔶 The problem is, we favorite everything twice…

🔷 Well I wanna favorite it too!! ;o;

🔶 But.. that removes the favorite!

🔷 Nuh uh! Not in spirit it doesnt. ^.^

🔶 ^^

🔶 We've got new Emojos! ^^

🔷 AND THEY'RE REALLY GAY AND EXTRA ​PLUSH​​! ^.^

🔶 ✨Plush✨ City residents just sent out their 20,000th toot!! ^^

🔷 Thank you for joining us on this awesome journey, soff frens!! ^.^

🎉 🎉 🎉

🔶 We've updated our Code of Conduct page to include a list of all instances we've suspended, complete with the date and reason for each suspension.
https://plush.city/about/more#suspended-instances

🔷 It even has links to the toots where we talk about the suspension! ^.^

🔶 We'll be keeping this list up to date from here on out, so you know where to look if you want to know who we're blocking. ^^

🔷 As always, use that report feature or contact us if you need help! ❤️

🔶 Instance albin.social is a more corporate styled instance which notes in their privacy policy an explicit intent to collect information about users for the purposes of serving targeted ads.

🔷 YUCK! >.<

🔶 Exactly. For this and a couple of related reasons, federation with them would violate our Code of Conduct. We've already suspended them to protect your privacy. ^^

🔶 We've just suspended the following instances as a preventative measure:
• quey.org
• spacetime.social
• misskey.nl
• pixfed.com
• mastodon.sdf.org
• duckfriend.com
• toot.world
• deepweb.eu
• mstdn.in

🔷 They all seem to be run by the same admin who has been caught harassing users of other instances. ;~;

🔶 Others' attempts to call out this behavior resulted in further harassment and blocks. We're not even going to bother with this one.

🔷 HECK 'EM! >.<