A cluster of ~300 WordPress web sites have begun federating over ActivityPub and then bridging to ATProto, all Swedish, mostly blank. Could be innocuous, could be the beginnings of an ad-farm, could be something more troubling. We have no idea, but here's a list of domains in case anyone wants […]

Hello, cafe patrons! We have just made a Federation adjustment to put the tags.pub service in a "Limit" status. Proprietor themself noticed today that the intended behaviour of tags.pub, which was not inherently objectionable, has potential to enable the intended behaviour of "hashtag spamming" […]

shop patrons, be aware that our hosting provider is planning maintenance on our database storage next week. It may result in slower message deliveries and occasional errors.

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116856107663968615 To follow this, which I just boosted - there is a lot of imprecise use of the word "bot" including not-uncommon use that equates it with " a badly behaved but human-operated account". It's confusing. There's no specific […]

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116839540340998149 I'm going to add for Canadian fedizens, GoToSocial is one of the subscription options from Fedihost.co, a small business focused on Canadian-located, managed Fediverse hosting. If you possibly can, support your a) instance or […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@offby1/116840928214823089 Co-signed, fam. Please be aware that many people are traumatized or retraumatized every time they are failed like this by the society that should be supporting them. Good moment for a reminder that CWs are not a "rule" in our view, ever […]

Hey 'Shop. Because my posts on this were threaded underneath someone's request (you can just look at my "posts and replies" history - still visible, I think), I just wanted to mention this in case others are concerned. The problems some are hearing about related to a service/server called tags […]

The annual #SocialWeb Operations Survey from @iftas is open! With over 8,000 active installs, we want the #Mastodon community's voice to be heard. Whether you're running a single-person server or a larger community hub, your feedback directly shapes the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Time for another re-read of "How Complex Systems Fail", I guess. 😩

RE: https://mastodon.social/@orci/116783524071535331 I love it when the best hashtags hang out together in the same post.

Heeey, 'Shop! The infrastructure side of this operation got us set up to ver. 4.6 while I was still contemplating the amount of coffee I needed for the morning. Check out all the new toys. And please give me a few minutes, I cannot find my admin tools at the moment (they are here and improved […]

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116783742958391564 With the below post in mind, and Collections now a thing, we should all be aware of our personal account settings. These are YOUR means of agency and control over your own posts and reach. On Wandering.shop, I'm nearly […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/116777818128808787 Yer proprietor is a grey-hair of the Fediverse and tends towards a curmudgeonly "FAFO, doesn't involve me!" But especially for EU friends who may find themselves seeing a lot of superficially-informed "W is the Bluesky for […]

On Bluesky, @thisismissem does some digging and discovers that W Social and W Identity are basically the same people. So much for the line that "W Social doesn't know who you are because W Identity handles all the identity verification" […]

Happy Sunday! There's a porch-party music fest hereabouts but the weather is looking non-cooperative. Our invite code is refreshed for another week (no big messaging changes in the Announcement, which is why it doesn't show up "new" every time - I just edit). If you need to be in from the rain […]

Soooo, hey, I got a question for those of you on our local, and also friends on our affiliated, timelines: What do you think would describe a "Wandering (Coffee/Book) Shop"? We are nudging towards a call for #mastoart, because we really want to get a #wanderingartshop gallery going. But a […]

RE: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116741586916718185 I didn't get a chance to vote on this, but I am totally dying over the discovery that the past tense of "toot" is "tot", because of course it is because language is amazing. 😆 "You have just been subtot" is the new signifier for […]

Hi friends! The primary Proprietor driver had one of those lifey-life-things go on last week and was away. Apologies for the offlinedness, but family time was needed. I'm tidying up now, and the new Invite code is up in our Announcement for your sharing and inviting. Mastodon is making *some* […]

Hey there ... Proprietor's having one of those sneezed-too-hard-and-killed-a-brain-cell. I swear when I was on my phone earlier I had a DM from someone asking about an account. For such requests that really look to be out of the blue - I do double check what's up, and this looked like someone […]

Hi all. Just posted the latest invite code up in our Announcements. Or ye can find ye a FrontOfHouse member to ask, if you're not already from here. As usually - good for 1 week/whole buncha uses, grab it and bring all your friends in from the tempermental cold May rain. Just don't pin it up […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@proprietor/116513797114454302 Boosting our prior #mastoart tease for a #wanderingartshop. Because today I noted a number of #caturday posts which included some amazing #catart styles that vibe along (to my eye, at least) with some of the aesthetics described by our […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/116586011293829902 Cats of Wandering.Shop! #caturday Also, if any cat parent out there were going to name a matching feline set "Infrared" and "Ultraviolet", of course they should be one of us!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DocAtCDI/116585937177973089 BRB, checking to see if we wrote a rule about dad-joking on the main timeline. No? Oh well! Carry on as you were, users have their own tools to manage this. 😜

Heh. Fam, if you need a bit of fedi fun tonight, #hashtaggames appears to be on with #breakfasttvshows The Brady Brunch

Hi, 'Shop. I'm stepping slightly out of my local, community-care lane to share something I feel is very important to Canadians. We're facing another terribly damaging, wrongheaded attempt by our government to "regulate" digital communications by compromising everyone's security. If you're a […]

RE: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/05/12/there-are-a-million-fediverses-some-of-them-are-louder-than-others/ For those of us who relate to the broader network we all participate in, beyond our own community nodes. This is a good from-above commentary on the Fediverse, and the real difficulty in […]

Okay, following the caturday aT tags.pub address has made my weekend Mastodon chores a heck of a lot more floofy. I do not mind this service.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/116404833974232928 Aging like fine wine 🍷

Fedi fam & friends, be ye on our Local timelines or following us from "around", we are still slowly progressing on our #wanderingartshop project. While I work on the next round of clearer specifications, have a look at our RFP: https://gallery.wandering.shop/art-rfp.html You can also follow […]

⚠️ #sw_isac_advisory The following domain(s) are being escalated to the Abandoned/Unmanaged Denylist (AUD) review process: sigmoid.social #cib #fimi #spam More about AUD: https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116523411932881228 Hrm... neat. Not sure anyone wants Proprietor being able to post from a CLI, though. I *could* but usually if I'm getting loose on a CLI it's because something's broken and I'm a little desperate and experimenting. @offby1 […]

Considering re-writing rules to put DISINGENUOUS ENGAGEMENT and DON'T BE A PAIN IN YOUR SYSTEM ADMINS' BACKSIDES right up top. I figure that gives license to yeet pretty much all the reports I get. 😆 Either because they're reporting yet another sealioning bot or fake account, or they're filed […]

If anyone is interested in, or concerned about, what tags.pub does or how it works, please have a read about it, from the source. https://tags.pub Hittin' #feditips with this, for reach. You have control over whether or not you interact with this service, so please inform yourselfs accordingly!

My #wanderingartshop has a small coffee counter with the fancy espresso machine but a sensibly concise menu of the standards. Filter brew and a selection of tea/tisanes/infusions too. Lots of cozy seating, a mix of cafe tables for 2-4, six if you squish around. There are also poofy armchairs to […]

Soooo, hey, I got a question for those of you on our local, and also friends on our affiliated, timelines: What do you think would describe a "Wandering (Coffee/Book) Shop"? We are nudging towards a call for #mastoart, because we really want to get a #wanderingartshop gallery going. But a […]

Hey all - doin' the housekeeping for this week. Reports handled, new invite code is up in the announcement, couple of other little back-office things got a little nudge. Go forth and invite more friends along!

Hey 'shop locals, or anyone farther out following stuff like #fediblock I think we've talked something like this up before - we have had multiple rounds of spam that have involved abandoned and unmoderated instances that have been left with open registration. we usually defederate early and […]

Ugh hey all - I'm guessing that this is a not-infrequent #feditips entry, but please report then block any account that is messaging you claiming to be "Mastodon Support" or telling you to "validate your account" or "contact us to activate your offer". Looks like jerks discovered a popular few […]

Hey there wandering shop frenz! Sorry, I slept in a bit, the Invite code is now refreshed. I cannot remember if I mentioned this yet, or recently, but if I slip up with our (not exactly) secret code (it's pinned at the top of your Home timeline in an Announcement), we have several […]

I wanted to share another mod-brain-blurt about some of the reports goin' round not necessarily here but "out there" in the Fediverse. There is no doubt that in the past few weeks, the newly unleashed "agentic AI" frenzy has added another layer of complication to just about everything in online […]

Hiya, shop fam - been cleaning up the corners and taking out the trash tonight, so the reports are all processed. We've got a slight uptick in interested folks moving over to join us, which is great. Far from more than we can manage, so keep finding us friends! The invite code is freshened up […]

This is a mod blurt probably not relevant to most fedizens who are content with where they are. But for my colleagues who swap notes and cheat sheets on managing inter-instance or cross-protocol frictions, Laurens Hof's "Connected Places" this week was a complete banger. Worth reading for a […]

ATTN: wandering.shop regulars and beyond ... The Proprietor team is scheming up a tiny scheme to work on something we've talked about for years. LIttle bit of a #mastoart boosting idea, little bit of a drive to find us some bespoke "branding". I don't mind looking like a Creative Commons […]

Oh hey look more agent bots sealioning in on ppl's conversations. Andy is the new Jimmy is the new Nicole the Fediverse Chick is the new **YEEEEET**. As you were, fam, just keeping my digital trebuchet in working order.

For those of you interested in the "bigger picture" of our digital social web and the perceived threat of regulation, this blog is a thoughtful and calm and neutral "where are we standing right now" look at it. There is certainly much to be desired in specific implementations of specific […]

Ah, the #feditips and #fediblock threat intel is moving faster than ever ... Not that we at wandering.shop get infected with spammers easily, but those of you who get their attention are bothered, so please keep reporting. The latest variant is someone has put up a service creating agents and […]

Well, hey, friends here and far. This is not "fediverse" trust and safety related, except that there's a big crossover between us alternative microblog users and Signal's users. There are now people receiving "Verify your Signal App" phishing attacks, just like the "Verify your Mastodon" ones […]

oh, bother. Now catching spam, 2nd time this week, from someone running an AP host on .godaddysites.com . I have a bad feeling they'll be less bothered by being an abuse host than HF.spaces would. Guess that's another #fediblock suggestion, if others haven't picked it up yet. I hate how all […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@proprietor/116174077049997046 I should clarify something: this is not the actual Hugging Face organization doing this; hf.space is their space for hosting their own users' apps and experiments and data sets. Whatever anyone thinks of HF or the mere existence of […]

Hello 'shop and farther-flung friends, we are going to defederate with extreme prejudice from all instances ending with hf.spaces. that is not a fediverse instance, it is a host for HuggingFace AI subscribers to play with their little vibe-coded toys, and someone is using it to spin up entire […]