✨Plush✨ City Announcements @announcements@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. ^.^

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🔶 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!! ^.^

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🔶 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! >.<

🔶 Our server cuddlers and internet seamstresses have taken some time today to condense like and boost notifications so they take up less space in your notifications! ^^

🔷 Yeah!! Now its easier to find people talking to you, too! ^.^

🔶 Please let us know what you think of these changes- we can always revert them if folks don't care for them. ^^

🔶 We've blocked bofa.lol from our community as a preventative security measure.

🔷 They went down today anyway?

🔶 Their server went down after the admin seemed to make motions to leave; we weren't privy to any parting messages beca-

🔷 BECAUSE HE BLOCKED US! >.<

🔶 …yes, because he blocked our admins during an argument. For that reason and due to the unstable nature of their administration style, we've suspended their domain.

🔶 We've collected the last few missing letters from the SMB emoji alphabet! ^^

🔷 We got tired of waiting for someone on our network to find them, so we made them ourselves! ^.^

🔶Here they are! ^^

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🔶 Here they are, frens! ^^

New Fonts!
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🔷 Lookit 'em all!! ^.^

🔶 There's even a few more blobs, though we can't remember which ones are new. ^^;;

🔷 Have fun with 'em! ^.^

🔶 Oh! and because we forg-

🔷 AND THEY'RE PROBABLY USIN' EM! 😡

🔶 Thanks B. Yeah, the're have been a few bots following people from that instance, and that's close enough to be block-worthy. Many of the communities in our neighborhood are doing the same.

🔷 WE BLOCKED 'EM CASE CLOSED

🔶 Er, yes! We've suspended the domain raki.social after hearing that the admin had previously spoken of potentially programming federation follow bots to mine user data as a "social experiment". As this is a violation of our Code of Conduct, the (very small) raki.social instance has been permanently suspended.

🔷 You tell 'em, T! ^.^

🔶 Thanks, B. uwu

🔶 Good news everyone!! We're connected to the yiff.social relay run by @Sir_Boops!

🔷 Now there's lots of new friends in our federated timelines-- and more friendly folks to interact with your public toots. ^^

🔶 As always, if you find anything in our federated timelines that goes against our code of conduct, don't be afraid to use that report feature.

🔷 Yeah!! Use it lots, it keeps us all happier when you do. ❤️