Hey #ttrpg folks, there's a VTT looking for freelance writers on the birdsite, link below. I can safely say that €0.08/word is well above the standard rate for pretty much any publisher I know, so who knows, might be useful to some of you?
@lordsplodge @eerko I don't think you can see it from mastodon directly, but it is at https://tabletop.social/users/host/following right now
@gpage
re: Bring Your Question thread
@pictor it is behind, mostly because the newer version is broken in many ways.
The biggest challenge to version 4 right now is either break instance on some pages, or force us to change some of the privacy setting which we have in place for a reason.
I think the birdsite fiasco rushed websiteboy to push a new version and lots of bugs came to light too late.
There is more to it, but that's the gist of it
@lordsplodge as I said many time before to different people with similar idea, you would be better off following people.
If you don't know where to start, you should be able to see who I follow, which is confined to the people on this instance, or just look up accounts on tabletop.social from the search, or use the federated TL to see what we are about.
You'll also discover more people that way, as people will boost other people.
re: fediblock
@drunkcrunkfranken good to know, I might take the risk and look at that instance and unblock it then.
hi @lordsplodge we tend to focus on providing a space that focus on consent.
Every other tech head out there think that the only missing bit for mastodon is a proper search engine and start scraping content without anyone's consent.
The moderation and federation of the posts are also limited leaving us with little choice but to take action such as limiting who can see the public feed for example.
fediblock
I'm not checking them to see what they contain, but I've blocked them
lolicon.rocks
lolisandstuff.moe
misskey.gothloli.club
loliravioli.club
loliverse.xyz
on the topic of search
Tech people that want to give us searchable toots, hear my complain.
I'd love to believe that you want to make this place better.
Start by improving the moderation screen, here is why
Ways it is broken:
* No full text search on the account name, even locally (eg you cannot search bits of the name, only what it starts with)
* Same for the other fields
* Inexistant sorting options (like none
* Cannot search the bio at all
* Nothing around social graph
* (and more)
fediblock
Yet another fedi scrapper:
searchtodon.social
Time to reset https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html to zero I guess
@levy here is a good starter list too, again there is likely some you may want to keep federating with, mostly hot garbage tho https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70
re: fediblock
@larry I think it was scrapped from the about/more page of some mastodon instances (the original author had mentioned how many there was, but I don't remember).
long
@woof so you misused the tag, got called out for it, then spammed it again in protest?
Your instance about page is saying all shared blocked lists are malicious (in many more words), which is a common view held by lot of the actors in our block list.
If you want to have a fediblock discussion, please use # FediblockMeta, it exactly there for that exact purpose.
Otherwise it does look like concern trolling and a waste of your time + everyone relying on this tag for moderating bad actors.
tabletop.social funding
Since November, we got a lot new people supporting us, yet we also steadily lost 3-4 a month(change in situation, people moved instances, etc.)
If you have have the means to help, please contribute (links bellow)
It helps covering the cost of the server, but more importantly it helps a real human (in the mod team) with their bill and overall financial situation.
https://gum.co/tabletopsocialUS
https://gum.co/tabletopsocialEU
https://gum.co/tabletopsocialUK
If you're putting your fedi/masto handle on a website/contact form etc., format it with the external URL (how your profile loads in the browser address bar) rather than how you @-someone inside the client - for example, write:
Rather than:
curator @ mastodon.art
That way people will be less likely to mistake it for an email address. ^.^
re: tabletop.social funding
So far we only had to deal with 400 ish reports, mostly because we have actively (and proactivelly) blocked the worse the internet has to offer.
We also block badly moderated instances.
The constant, extra workload coming from places that do not care for their users micro aggression, do not understand the discourse around transphobia, and rest of the usual BS, is exhausting.
Showing support, including financial one, does help to let us know it is not done for nothing
Admin account of tabletop.social
This account will relay announcement/moderation news, it will provide friendly pointers.
I only follow people within tabletop.social but I encourage you to follow me if you want to know what's going on at the table.
Also on Discord https://discord.gg/48uc23u
Support the instance on:
* https://gum.co/tabletopsocialUS
* https://gum.co/tabletopsocialEU
* https://gum.co/tabletopsocialUK