Hey folks! As of just a few minutes ago, we are now on the Hometown fork of Mastodon.
Check out the new features we have access here: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
Let me know if you have any questions, and keep being your lovely selves 🖤
2022-04-04 05:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, happy holidays! This is your server tiger, Somnius, here :3
Can you believe it's been 3 years since we started running The Town as a Mastodon instance? I think that's pretty amazing. And I have some fun plans in store soon!
The biggest thing: if you've checked our Trello board, I just moved the "Migrate to Hometown" card over to "in progress." This means I'm going to actively look into migrating us over to Hometown...
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Looks like I hoppe...
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2020-10-21 08:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
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Hey all! Thanks ...
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It's been a pr...
2020-07-21 03:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
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Hot d...
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Was quite late with this report, thanks for your pat...
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Hey there all! These are s...
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It was a pretty great last month, ev...
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Looks like I gotta get more consistent about remov...
2020-02-12 06:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
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One thing I forgot to correct last time: I got 25 ...
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The DigitalOcean costs spiked a bit because of the me...
2019-12-04 06:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
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Was kind of surprised at the S3 jump, but it’s defin...
2019-11-06 08:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Reminder to vote on the previous post. You can find the poll here, or click on the embedded link with this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30553962
I'd love to get your input to see if we should move forward with local posting or not.
The poll on the instance is finishing up tomorrow, but I'll run this poll for a few more days to give you al...
2019-10-21 20:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey there everyone! After getting a few messages about this, I have been doing a bit of research about local-only posting and what it would look like to implement that feature on our instance.
See my thread about it here: https://merveilles.town/@somnius/102967788986849037
To gather more insight on the level of interest in this feature...
2019-10-15 18:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
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We've been doing quite well since starting the Patreon...
2019-10-06 22:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
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2019-09-05 04:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey there everyone! Somnius here. It's been a few months since this Patreon was started, and I've been blown away from the response. With the current amount of money we have, the instance can be completely self-sustained.
From here on out, I'll be including the financial reports on Patreon so backers can see them. I'll keep everyone involved in any new developments and such as well.
Thanks again everyone, and I hope you enjoy The T...
2019-09-05 04:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post