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Managing Barista and Janitor

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@proprietor is the Administration and moderation account for Wandering.Shop. Getting an Invite: Look for folks with FrontOfHouse on their profile, or ask any user […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@proprietor, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23h

We do not have the time or resources to notify anyone individually of this action, and regardless, could not necessarily trust responses if we got them at this point. We estimate this may affect as many as 2800 users (recall we are one of the oldest instances - from early 2017). However, the […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Here is what we will be doing: Identifying accounts hosted on wandering.shop which have not been accessed in 6 months or longer. Deploying a script which will re-set passwords to a long, random string, which we ourselves will not be able to read or un-do (database-level re-write) […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23h

ANNOUNCEMENT will be placed on our timeline in a moment, but I'm also sharing as a post. Due to the still-high levels of malicious spam coming from compromised accounts, wandering.shop will lock unused accounts as of 6 PM PDT this evening, October 18. We are not aware that we are (yet) hosting […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

And check in on friends/contacts you suspect have abandoned accounts here. Some instances are now at least locking accounts after a long spell of inactivity. We haven't had cause to yet, and won't without announcing it, but it's not a bad idea from an instance managment point of view.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Hey folks - the reports are getting dealt with. We are going through another wave of compromised accounts (not us, specifically, but fediverse-wide) where other data breaches have exposed emails&passwords that people have also used for Fediverse accounts which are now compromised, sometimes […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Updated our shared code again - it's in the Announcements at the top of your Home column. As usual - invite friends, fam, colleagues, up-and-coming writing mentees, or your favourite author if you happen to meet 'em. Just don't leave it lying around in public.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Breaking the Proprietor protocol for a brief minute to just reiterate that I love my local indie bookshops - all of them - and that Wordsworth Books just helped me get hold of an armful of some of y'all 'Shop authors' independently published work. Before you leap to an online big-box because […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

For those who have an interest in the nature of "The Fediverse", whatever you experience that to be, the next FediForum is ready to kick off next Monday through Wednesday. fediforum.org/2026-10 At least one of your Proprietor hive will be there. Luminary keynotes are lined up, as are […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Weeeellll... bless 'em all. Happy Friday, 'Shop fam, we got another wave of "verify your account" sc/pammers on the loose. TL;DR: YOU NEVER HAVE TO VERIFY YOUR MASTODON ACCOUNT If your admin has *any* reason to contact you ever it will be via DM from your own instance admin, ONLY. The wider […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Someday, which I hope is far in the future, I will find myself , or what's left of me, the guest of honour at a funeral. I hope that everyone in attendance will be handed one of my comments made in response to a mastodon report I've had to deal with, to read out loud for the laughs. If whomever […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Patrons, be advised that the wandering.shop DNS servers are having upstream issues. Nothing we can do anything about, but it'll make the shop hard to reach sporadically. It'll be a bit like the shop is slipping off into the back alleys for a bit, foraging for scraps and strays.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@Virginicus Good heavens no, I have a MUCH higher standard for critique writing than has ever been demonstrated in fediverse content/account reporting. Capitalization and the occasional comma would be a good start.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@Perrin42 Heh. 😆 Yes, that's ANOTHER whole category of fun reports to deal with. Sensible mods and Admins have "work" and "personal" accounts separate, but we really do get reports on ourselves! At least in my case(s), we are collectives and turn over those reports to another one of our hive […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I mean - my funeral is likely to be a combined Yarn Destash and Book Giveaway as it is, there are about ~4000 fediversians registered on Wandering.Shop and you network with 10's of thousands more creatives. I firmly believe every one of you is putting amazing work out into the world and I would […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I must admit I find a collateral benefit in these sometimes . It's nice to have the opportunity to discover another Wandering Shop author whose work I had not yet encountered. 😆

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Good morning friends. Apparently today is the Monday that Proprietor needs to remind folks - mostly the rest of the Fediverse, not my folks - that Mastodon's Report function is not a vehicle for critique of Authors' works. When you come across someone whose stories are not to your taste, you […]

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Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I will ask, if *you* are asked for the code, rather than offering it to someone you already know, please don't let yourself be pressured or feel obliged to share with a complete stranger to be polite - though we all want to be. If you cannot be quickly and completely assured of a request being […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

... but for now they'll only work for 5-10 uses. They will still expire after 1 week. I will likely still lose track of It Is Sunday, Boss and forget them and you'll still be welcome to remind me, of course. I hope this works fine - we have rarely had more than 5 uses of 1 single code in a week […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

NEW INVITE CODE IS UP! Okay, I do NOT like being the only gatekeeper AT ALL people, AT. ALL. Can't be a best Third Place if you're trying to keep the door actually locked and hiding behind a curtain to see who's there, but dammit, the Agents from iLands or whatever the latest thing that is […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Hey ho m'dears. Mod blurt for tonight: Was pointed at yet another sign-up spam phenom that Other Instances are suffering (not us - making all our new friends just knock first is so helpful). It led to this article, which is a quick read and a good warning for all those of you who may have […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

For the record, pretty much every Gmail address I have ever had has been exposed in some data breach or other. Even a long-idle one I once used for a minimal small biz project has *one* exposure in the pandemic era. If you're signing up for anything at all with a real email address, for the […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Also, if we find, or if we have reported to us, compromised accounts, *we cannot directly restore them to you* if you have lost control of the email address. We can only disable or suspend the account. We will not provide credentials if you no longer have them. The only way we can deal with […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If you are concerned if you have ANY account that may have been exposed (or even if you think you have not), consider checking at haveibeenpwned.com, which will check detected data breaches for your email address(es). Be aware that this is one of the vulnerabilities neither Mastodon nor […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Hey there 'Shop fam. We are avoiding it so far, but a couple More New Slop Nonsense Attacks are hitting fediverse servers. There have been many dozens if not hundreds of accounts across dozens of servers recently taken over by scripted "credential stuffing", where stolen credentials are used to […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

For anyone still looking for a new home base as toot.community is unfortunately wrapping up, wandering.shop is a cozy sort of spot from which you can explore the wider fediverse, or within which you can hang out with our various friendly characters. We are nominally "invite only" but the way to […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: social.growyourown.services/@FediTi… This is a good thing to understand. One of my orgs is trying to unify our sign-ins including with an auxiliar PF instance - we seem to be able to make it go, but its not easy (don't ask this account for details, I just watch […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@DriftlessRoots If you are interested in wandering.shop, I've had to take on a little more work finagling with our Invites process, but we are a "just ask, we hold the door open" kind of spot.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Canadians: My friend @Taffer has made a great list of alternatives to US tech, check it out & help update it if you know of additional options! worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alterna… #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian #CdnPoli

canadian-alternatives

A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Related to my last boost: this Proprietor facet has jumped into a crash course on Wellbeing Economics and Reimagining Futures at an un-conference going on RIGHT NOW. The reimaginefestival.ca is specifically *not* about the Fediverse, but everything people are offering to the community […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fediforum/11712241… At least one body that contributes to your Proprietor will be participating in the next semi-annual FediForum. FediForum is an un-conference, which means it has a broad theme - "the Fediverse" - but most of the time spent is focused on […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 18/08/2026

Well, I guess if I'm going to have to encounter things online that have to do with OnlyFans and Crypto ... it's nice to find at least one of those things a) combines both and b) benefits science research and c) cute goofy rodents […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

RE: social.growyourown.services/@FediTi… oh, and related to my last post - FediTips has a very good point. 5.0 has a big focus on a largely rearchitected *web client*. If you do not use the Mastodon Web Client now, you won't see much dramatic change. If you DO use […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Today in whats-on-the-Fediverse-horizon news: Mastodon 5.0 sneak peek. For those who have thoughts about the now dozens of possible platforms and dozens more client applications for our communities, there are some interesting changes in the next major Mastodon release - quite a redesign […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This lands Gaza-verified in the absolutely horrible position in having to re-investigate their verifications and potentially revoke them. I am vicariously distressed just thinking about the consequences of that. Ok, I'll shut up now but if it wasn't apparent, I will put in the work to support […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I'm not sure people understand the damage this type of appropriative behaviour would do in so many ways. One of these accounts may be a legitimate Gaza citizen thinking they are extending their reach using alts to access people who block Gaza-verified or they are using multiple different funding […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Gaza-verified requires that verified users have only ONE account, the verified one. While this cannot prevent an actual person from having other accounts, they MUST only post aid requests from the verified account. The back-linking is absolutely intolerable as it breaks the whole trust model […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Heh, Mx. Eddie beat me to my last point wit a question - yes, a characteristic that has developed is accounts which are NOT gaza-verified using another account's gaza-verified link in their profile. I will immediately suspend those accounts, so that is another reason I would ask that you DO […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I've confirmed this is not acceptable to Gaza-verified, and I've shared my reports on at least one swarm with that program. I'm pretty sure there are others out there, however, and I'd like to ask those of you who encounter them to spend an extra few clicks on a report to include information for […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Gaza-verified is a legitimate protocol of human-to-human verification that an account is authentically connected to a Gaza citizen seeking support. For admin/mod teams, it is a signal that we can trust what we see when we encounter those users. However the behaviour I am noting as being on the […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

An *account* is reportable if it is mass-following, repeated following/unfollowing/refollowing, or engaging in other attention-seeking behaviour that is disruptive to someone else's activity on the Fediverse. Unfortunately this latter behaviour is something we're seeing a new wave of, and it's […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Second, for accounts we do not host here, we moderate consistently with all other external accounts. If they are making public posts on the public timelines only, there is no cause for reporting a Gaza aid request - you may ignore, mute and block, or even boost as you wish. The posts are […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Shop fam, I want to reiterate something and let you know of a new complication fedi-mods are seeing. Gaza Mutual Aid requests of various sorts are all over our timelines, and as a fediverse management team, we lean with the faction this views this as a legitimate means of desperate people […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Oh, my Shop, my darlings ... OK, fess up. Which one of you started #StarTrekPorn on the #hashTagGames frequency tonight? If it turns out it wasn't one of us, I"m going to be very disappointed. 😆

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

hello! up for air for a minute from my simultaneous last-written-paper-ever (or, for this degree, anyway) and online un-conference, to take care of the reports list. Thanks for continuing to be an awesome instance that makes the community tidy-up chores easy! I wanted to share another shift […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 05/08/2026

Canadians, #fediforum regulars, and those of you who are unconference-curious - are you interested in checking out the seemingly *very* un-conferenced reimaginefestival.ca ? I've just signed on. The "schedule" runs August 12 - 26th, but the platform is open now for those who wish to […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Significant Dates in Science Fiction: August 4, 2026, I guess! archive.org/details/bradbury-nimoy

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Leonard Nimoy reads two of Ray Bradbury's classic stories from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. USHER IIThese recordings were...

Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Pro tip: Mailing the wandering.shop admin account trying to spam an author whose name you found with @wandering .shop following it, thus making it clear you have no clue How To Fediverse, is not going to get you in touch with that author. To our Authors: Just so's ya know, we are NOT going to […]

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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

One of the biggest, possibly THE biggest challenge of the Open Social Web is funding its operations. This place is built largely as a labour of love by volunteers who have an hour or a few free in a week, and possibly not on a regular basis. It's more than just your personal Mastodon login, too […]

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