One of our mods wrote a short guide aimed at people who are still using Twitter for stuff, to help familiarise themselves with both Bluesky and Mastodon. Might be good for someone you know. blog.daveyfaherty.com/a-quick-guid...

If Bluesky suits you in a lot of ways, but you're losing confidence in the owners, it's possible that you won't need them forever. @blackskyweb.xyz and @transrights.northsky.social are both doing valuable work to create safe communities and might be the way forward for you. Throw them a few quid.

OVH are currently having latency issues which is likely the cause of the current performance problems on Mastodon.ie public-cloud.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/9m... Hopefully this will be resolved soon this evening.

We've set up a site called daoine.net Tagline: "Maintaining online community founded on respect, privacy and common goals." This is to reflect that we needn't limit ourselves to just one piece of software, and to act as an umbrella for other things we might install.

Hello. pixelfed.ie is still very much being tested and is liable to fall over and burst into flames at any moment. Please hold.

We are aware of a problem uploading files, as well as API and job queue issues. You may see nothing happening. We suspect this is happening at the OVH (cloud provider) level, and started about 15:33 Hopefully issues will resolve soon.

Hello, we have set up a Bsky account for mastodon.ie in case we need it for anything. We would also like to note that you can now use Bridgy Fed to mirror your Bsky account to Fedi. fed.brid.gy Your friends on Fedi can do the same thing in the other direction.