A very warm welcome to those that were on #MedMastodon that have made the jump over here to #FediMedi (Yes, you can tell I had such a creative naming scheme when I launched the new site).
We're running #GoToSocial which is new for me and has been a really good learning activity in itself, I'm still getting used to how everything works.
The instance (As far as I can see!) should allow folks to request accounts here which will allow me to make sure we aren't rapidly flooded by spam, the same restrictions we have on our two other Mastodon servers.
We're rocking a 2000 character limit at the moment.
I won't be super active in posting from this account, it's primarily a way for me to manage and administer the instance, you can follow @wild1145 for my general day to day ramblings!
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We're adding mastodon.cloud to our #Fediblock list due to the instance seemingly being abandoned with open signups and zero moderation. The burden of us suspending accounts locally is not practical when the instance is out of date and not being maintained.
It's been flagged since August last year - https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115027342813989021 so I don't see it likely that anything is suddenly going to change.
A Quick note for #MastodonAppUK , #FediMedi and #Universeodon folks - I've got some maintenance coming up next Tuesday where the sites will be down for a short amount of time to allow me to apply some updates and do some maintenance to our underlying hardware. The actual outage shouldn't be more than 30 or so mins and I'll probably get some of the pre-work done before with no down time to keep things running quickly on the day.
Updates will be posted on https://status.atlas-media.co.uk/schedules/36
Final #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon #FediMedi notice - We're starting maintenance now on our services. We're expecting to be down for a short period before we come back online, after which we will go down again for a short period of time.