Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

#introductions

Hey there! I'm Somnius, a white tiger living in SF. I code websites, play indie & rhythm games, love all kinds of music, and turned vegan in the middle of this year.

Things I advocate for: furries, non-monogamy, sex positivity, gender identity, LGBT+ rights, democratic socialism.

All of you here inspire me so much with the amazing things you create. I have so much to learn!

I have acquired ingredients for making Old Fashioned cocktails—that's my favorite mixed drink! And I have fancy crystal glasses to drink out of too.

I may not be doing much in terms of cooking, but as far as drink making goes, I'm becoming half bartender, half barista :3c

Still extremely in the positives, and the gracious amount of donations we're getting for the instance is absolutely keeping us above water! Thanks again to all the Patrons—I'll also start adding these financial reports to the Patreon as well.

Thanks so much everyone! :D

Total Donations for Month
$76.33 via Patreon

Total: $76.33

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $20.16
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $44.84

Donations to Date
$649.39

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$489.23

Money left over
$160.16

Nice, we're all switched over to Mailgun! Emails are sending nicely. I'll update the docs to reflect the switch in email plan.

Thanks to @rechner for recommending that service! :D

Going to migrate to using Mailgun instead of Sparkpost because thy have a much higher initial email send limit!

Well damn, looks like we hit our 500-email limit on Sparkpost last month. We're definitely growing and that's great, but we need to be able to send out emails!

I'll look into other services to see what might work better. We may have to switch to a different service or just use the instance VPS itself to send out emails. I'll keep you all updated!

I've been dealing with way too much negativity on the birdsite lately, so I'm taking a break from there until further notice.

You may see me engage a bit more on here as a result. I'm glad I can have this place to fall back on :3

However, just a reminder:

Any instance that gives room for hate to thrive does not deserve to federate with us. I'll keep doing my best to see how we can block these instances pre-emptively. Your reports all absolutely help too!

Update: the original poster of that blocklist has since deleted the original thread, admitting they got some things wrong. I'm still concerned that our site is showing up on that other instance, but it looks like nothing is wrong on our end.

This may possibly be a bug of some kind, so I'm investigating this. Thanks for your patience, and I'll have an update shortly once I know more about what's going on!

In the meantime, I hope you all are having a peaceful weekend! :D

Hey all, it looks like we're appearing on a list of instances to defederate with because a user from here is showing up on the "followers" list of the freespeechextremist instance. I'd like to address this.

That instance was one of the first instances we defederated from after a user from there harassed one of our users here. To be clear, I don't want to associate with that instance of all. That instance very clearly goes against our rules.

Welcome to the fediverse, @dragoness! If you ever need any help with running things definitely let me know :D

Also, it has been a while since I went down to see you with Vang & Vulan! I remember your synth collection was pretty amazing, and seeing you talk with the other pilots at dinner that day was super cool :3

@neauoire For a full list of all improvements, check out the changelog here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.3

Highlights include: GIF/WebP support for emoji, properly adding a robots noarchive tag, and a bunch of fixes! :D

@neauoire Aaaaand we're back! Say hello to v2.9.3, everyone :3

Upgrading the instance, you might see a bit of downtime! Ran out of memory just now, gonna reboot the server to compile assets, be right back in a minute :3

cc @neauoire

Wow!!!! I didn't realize this happened, but we are now fully funded :D

To the patrons, thank you so, so much!

…On that topic, I also forgot to add another $85 that was donated to our instance in June, oh dear.

This puts our "money left over" at $213.67. Thanks for your patience, everyone! I should have one place to view our expense history.

UPDATED

Total Donations for Month
$58.45 via Patreon
$25.00 via Ko-Fi

Total: $83.45

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $21.93
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $46.61

Donations to Date
$573.06

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$444.39

Money left over
$128.67