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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

@stefan oh, thank you! I wasn't really aiming for a strong or well-argued stand. Just wanted something clear and reasonable, that's easy for our community to understand, and for our mod team to moderate. it feels nice to get applause for it. ☺️

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I've temporarily disabled the permission that lets existing users invite new users to join blorbo.social. We've seen a handful of new users who've applied for new accounts with plausible-seeming reasons, been accepted, and then sent invites to all their bot friends with ai-generated profiles […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

@Whiskeyomega sounds similar to what we've been dealing with at blorbo.social. Someone signs up with a legit-looking application reason, then invites a bunch of AI slop accounts that bypass our usual sign-up vetting. We also got a bunch of AI slop applications directly too, which have been […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

oh, and we allow our established users to share invites with others. some of these new spammy accounts were created with invites sent by a user who joined blorbo.social with a legit-looking application reason, but who turned out to be scummy. eh, it happens. I don't want to turn away people who […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I've found a few more. they seem to be creating accounts on various servers, with nonsense bios, and then following a handful of similar accounts. they don't seem to post original content, but instead boost a random assortment of unrelated posts. I guess this is to do with establishing […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Seeing a bunch of new account applications with 'reasons' that seem like nonsense mad libs, and have nothing to do with the purpose of our instance. Some examples: > Powered by etsy and small batch. Soft marfa glow in Hialeah. Designing around synth constraints. Tastefully fanny pack. > Sent […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

mastodon.cloud is an abandoned server with open sign-ups, meaning that it's an easily exploited home for spammers etc. they're now limited from blorbo.social. we'll probably suspend at some point, because it seems like the admins aren't coming back. if you follow any accounts on mastodon.cloud […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Donations were covering expenses for a while, but they've dropped off in recent months. I'm still okay to keep covering the shortfall personally. But I reckon it's best for blorbo.social's continuing existence for it to be independent of my personal finances.

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Blorbo.Social is a volunteer-run and community-funded project. We plan to keep this community free for members. There's no expectation or requirement to contribute. However, if you have spare funds to throw at hosting expenses, here’s our Open Collective: opencollective.com/blorbosocial

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Blorbo.Social - Open Collective

Provides a social space for fandom nerds, through Mastodon.

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

@scumsuck aethy doesn't federate with baraag either, mainly for the same reasons as us I believe

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

@scumsuck so bizarre to me that there are people who can't see any significant difference between hate speech & shipping. I had been assuming that there was some 'fake news' provider out there, telling baraag-wanters that blorbo is their road to baraag.

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

We don't federate with baraag. We regularly get people applying for accounts on blorbo.social, stating that their reason for applying is so that they can have access to baraag. We just reject those applications. Why do people keep assuming that they can get access to baraag through us?

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

@angelfeast it's not currently supported on mastodon (although it's possible on some other non-mastodon fediverse platforms). If it ever comes to mastodon, I don't see any reason why we wouldn't enable it here

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

@mawr They have to provide a reason that makes it reasonably clear that they're applying specifically to blorbo.social and they know what the instance is for. Apart from that, I mostly just accept everyone that applies, and keep an eye on them at first. Very occasionally, a dodgy new user gets […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

Downtime was shorted than expected (only 15 minutes), database is all clean and shiny again. Thanks toot.io!

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

Blorbo.social will go offline for about an hour, from around 6am UTC Monday 12 May, for some scheduled maintenance.

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