Posts by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
(DIR) Post #3243454 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-01-22T04:13:26Z
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Nous sommes heureuses de vous informer que l’instance tourne sousMastodon 2.7.0 depuis hier. Quelques nouveautés de cette nouvelle version :1\. Vous pouvez désormais ajouter un compte à une liste depuis son profile.2\. Les vidéos ont désormais un contrôleur de volume.3\. Il existe désormais un annuaire public des membres de l’instance danslequel vous pouvez choisir de figurer (ce n’est pas le cas par défaut).Pour voir tous les changements :https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.7.0.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9fceDHdjk47Ffsj8me by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-02-08T09:46:54Z
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[fr] Nous pouvons de nouveau recevoir des dons !Si vous souhaitez soutenir financièrement Eldritch Café, vouspouvez nous faire un don sur @Liberapay à https://fr.liberapay.com/EldritchCafe/.-- @milia
(DIR) Post #9gtTvUYjB1yMJGq1Me by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-02-08T09:47:23Z
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[en] We can finally receive donations again!If you wish to support Eldritch Café financially, you cancan make a donation on @Liberapay at https://en.liberapay.com/EldritchCafe/.-- @milia
(DIR) Post #9gv8IGvSDqxw0lqTHU by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-03-19T06:31:46Z
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[fr] Nous vous avons aussi le plaisir de vous annoncer qu’Eldritch Café est désormais également accessible via IPv6.[en] We also are happy to announce you that Eldritch Café is now available through IPv6.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9hto4kJkS3Jx6d8R3g by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-04-17T12:54:02Z
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#LB[fr] Dans quelques heures, Eldritch Café fêtera sa première année.Merci encore à vous tous·tes d'avoir donné vie à cet endroit 💜 [en] In a few hours, Eldritch Café will celebrate its first year.Thank you again to all of you for bringing this place to life 💜
(DIR) Post #9htqFNlgpUJSGRP6xs by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-04-17T13:01:45Z
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[fr] Pour cette occasion nous avons préparé une petite surprise. Pensez à rafraîchir votre navigateur :eldritch_cafe: Merci @Mirima pour l'avoir réalisé.[en] For this occasion we have prepared a little surprise. Remember to refresh your browser :eldritch_cafe: Thanks @Mirima for making it happen.
(DIR) Post #9jSTUnU6Ha2yydc3Tk by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-03-04T05:08:32Z
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[fr] Eldritch Café suspend désormais neckbeard.xyz. Cette instancehéberge du contenu sexiste et pédopornographique.[en] Eldritch Café is now suspending neckbeard.xyz. This instance is hostingsexist content and child pornography.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9kk05ecI83gE6MXANk by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-07-11T13:06:06Z
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[fr] Bonjour tout le monde ! Nous avons de nombreuses choses à vous annoncer concernant les instances suspendues et masquées depuis Eldritch Café.Tout d’abord, veuillez noter que depuis Mastodon 2.9.1, lorsqu’un domaine est bloqué, tous ses sous-domaines le sont également.[en] Hello everyone! We have a lot of things to say regarding suspended and muted instances.First, please note that since Mastodon 2.9.1, when we block a subdomain, all its subdomain are also blocked.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9mpKmkehWsQoOYntGi by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-09-11T22:36:08Z
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[fr] Tout le monde, puis-je vous présenter… La @Serveuse ![en] Everybody, may I introduce you to… The @Serveuse!
(DIR) Post #9naiB5vlqkisjsHAH2 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-09-11T16:58:39Z
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[fr] Nous venons de bloquer la soi-disant instance féministe spinster.xyz, créée par un militant d’extrême droite et excluant spécifiquement les femmes transgenres.[en] We just suspended the so-called feminist instance spinster.xyz. It has been created by a far right activist and is excluding transgender women.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9orNo9V95qhaPjmL44 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-11-11T16:36:14Z
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Hello everyone!We are happy to announce that registrations on Eldritch Café are now open again! Feel free to join us or to invite your friends on this instance.Before signing up, don't forget to read our rules. You can find them in French and in English here: https://eldritch.cafe/about/more.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9orNoAC2WN0sYlqavI by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2019-11-11T16:43:27Z
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Remember, we are a feminist and LGBTI-oriented instance. We don't condone sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, casteist behaviors, as well as any kind of discriminatory practices and hate speech.We allow nudity and pornography but it must me marked as sensitive and not be posted on public timelines.More generally, note that if you don't like "SJW", "feminazis", antifascists, etc., it might save you some time to go somewhere else.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #9u8njWxJQAg8sZ9OhE by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2020-04-17T15:13:28Z
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[fr] Dans quelques heures, Eldritch Café soufflera sa deuxième bougie ! Ça va maintenant faire deux ans que l’instance a ouvert ses portes.Encore merci à toutes et à tous d’être là et de faire vivre notre petite instance 💜.[en] In a few hours, Eldritch Café will celebrate its second anniversary. It’s going to be two years since the instance opened its doors.Thank you to everybody for being here and making our small instance thrive 💜.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #A5VDCwOaBh0DF6Ycue by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2021-03-23T13:04:48Z
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[fr] Nous avons pris la décision de suspendre mamot.fr à partir du lundi 29 mars 2020. Ce n’était pas une décision facile, cette instance accueillant la plus grande communauté francophone sur le Fedivers.La modération de cette instance a longtemps été assez faible. Sa complaisance vis-à-vis des complotistes et de l’extrême-droite est la goutte d’eau qui a fait déborder le vase en ce qui nous concerne.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #A5VDCyNwn1gNPiH9CS by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2021-03-23T13:04:56Z
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[en] We decided to suspend mamot.fr as of Monday the 29th of March, 2020. It wasn’t an easy choice, given that instance is the largest French-speaking community of the Fediverse.The moderation of that instance has been lacking for quite some times. Its carelessness regarding conspiracy theorists and far-right propagandists has been the final straw for us.--@Sylvhem
(DIR) Post #ASBC4ZomIZpa1DO328 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2023-01-30T17:58:12Z
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Hi everyone,Our admin and mod teams have recenty been informed of the instance being featured on #fediblock for :* a white mod on the team who used to harass people on PlayVicious* racism (the mod team forced Black mod off the fedi)I sadly have no informations about the first point, nobody reported this to us. If someone has more context about it we would glady accept it.Regarding the second point I guess it comes from Camille's (@.deadflyingwitch) post at https://eldritch.cafe/@deadwitchflying/109773143343376217.Not all members of the teams were aware of these messages, as such we didn't write an official post to give more context about two moderators leaving the team on their own. I personally wasn't expecting to hear a defederation request targeting our instance like this.Regarding the context from our side I link a post from @.nileane who is a mod of Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@nileane/109778999711357852.I'll just add that we're 12 people with different schedules, Camille went solo before we could address it internally. Besides this the mod team backed her and nobody defended any ecofascism at all.-- @milia
(DIR) Post #ASNMzgDNW2Wooc8W4e by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2023-02-05T16:57:31Z
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1. After some amount of reflection, a careful examination of our chat logs and a lot of collective debate, we arrived to the conclusion that Camille’s accusations were not without basis.She was right to point that the instance had, for years, failed to show initiative when it came to actively fighting racism. We must also admit that her voice as a black woman was not sufficiently taken into account by the overwhelmingly white moderation team. Worse, the administration team didn’t step in to correct the problem, because it didn’t even identify it.This created an environment in which Camille didn’t feel safe and heard and led her to leave the team.None of this was done with malice. But good intentions are not enough, and this event is clearly the result of a collective failure by both the administration and moderation teams to account for their whiteness and properly address the power dynamics at play inside their midst.2. We admit that our eagerness to get into day-to-day moderation right away and work out rules “on the side” created an environment of uncertainty in which no clear moderation guidelines had been set down, which we recognize contributed to Camille feeling unsupported and having no clearly stated guidelines to defend her moderation actions by.We now realize that we should have written such guidelines before moving on to everyday moderation to provide her and other team members with an unambiguous toolset to prevent conflicts between team members and situations that singled her out for unjustified criticism by other team members.3. Our initial answer to the Fediblock post was inappropriate. It was driven primarily by anger and fear and as such was not the calm, thoughtful and collected response that would have been better for everybody involved. In our panic, we didn’t take the time to properly address its claims, nor to reflect on our actions and the collective failures of the administration and moderation teams.What we should have done instead: we should have replied that we would immediately start to reflect on what happened, on what our mistakes might have been, and that we would take the time needed to write a level-headed statement and to start addressing each of our failures.We now know that we must do better in that regard and we hope the present post will be a first step in that direction.4. In our first public statement, we linked to posts previously made by several members of the moderation team. Our thought at the time was that it would allow people to have different perspectives on what happened and was currently unfolding.That was a mistake. It ended up putting Niléane in the spotlight, making her the target of harassment. It also created a situation in which we were effectively leveraging the word of a black woman against another black woman. It was not our intent, but the result was the same.In retrospect we now realize we should have strictly stuck with a collective statement and refrained from putting any member of the team forward — especially our only other black member. However, we also recognize Niléane’s right to stand up for herself without putting the team’s wishes over her own.For all of this, we apologize.First, to Camille, who has been the first victim of our collective failure and of the systemic racism at play inside our group.Second, to the people of color who call Eldritch Café their home on the Fediverse. We believe we failed you by not providing you with the level of safety you deserve.And last, to the wider Fediverse.[1/2]
(DIR) Post #ASNMzh10XWE9IXM9Qm by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2023-02-05T16:58:09Z
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So, what are going to do from now on?As soon as our new team was onboarded, we were able to resolve all of the overdue reports that had accumulated, and we doubled the amount of suspended servers in a matter of days. We wish to highlight that we will keep doing this work day-to-day, and to highlight that Eldritch Café now has a resilient moderation team. But we must do better. Several people reached out to express their desire to help us improve. We intend to seize these opportunities.To that end, our moderation team’s immediate goal is to resume the work on overhauling our server rules. That work was first initiated as soon as the team was assembled about two weeks ago in order to provide our users with a safer environment, more clearly defined rules, and an improved ability to report harmful behaviour.We will also immediately start drafting new guidelines for ourselves, so as to better be able to manage critical situations as a team, to better be able to reflect on our failures, and to collectively grow from them.Our team will keep you all informed on this progress via @Barmaid.To other instances teams: please feel free to request our moderation chat logs if you need to get a clearer picture of the events that unfolded. We reached out to Camille so she was able to review and confirm the chat logs beforehand. We are now in the process of sending them to the several teams that have requested to read them. If you’re an admin or part of a moderation team, you can address your request at @Barmaid directly and we will send them to you.We hope finishing our revision of the server rules and our moderation guidelines will, along with this statement and apology, contribute to restoring some of the trust that was lost due to our mistakes.--Eldritch Café’s joint moderation and administration teams[2/2]
(DIR) Post #B0KbUwSF52yDcNNKd6 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2025-11-16T17:20:27Z
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@fabio @gomli Hi ! We do not restrict people asking for donations. No measure has been taken against :- @emanahmed- @shathamohammed123- @maram4- @nourgaza- @tallalnaser1990- @daliarezk- @yazzangaza - @eslamradwan1_D_5 The issue here is that we limit some big instances as a whole because of recurring spam waves. https://mastodon.social and https://mastodon.world are part of it and this is why any user on those instances will be limited by our instance.See https://eldritch.cafe/aboutI don't know what to do. Measures taken against instances are here for good reasons, but this is obviously a problem as we do not want to restrict reach and visibility for people in need.I'll lift the limit on those two instances right now, at least temporarily, until I have the input of the rest of the team on how to proceed with this issue.--milia, admin
(DIR) Post #B0KbUzOo8H0Okan8C0 by Barmaid@eldritch.cafe
2025-11-16T17:49:36Z
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@gomli Not on our software (Mastodon Glitch-Soc) as far as I know.And this solution would need a lot of work because many instances (and some medium to big one like us) limit mastodon.social and coThey can move to others instances but it'll always be a tradeoff. Bigger instances with less strict moderation have a bigger instance reach but will be limited because of it.A dedicated instance could work but take care about federation issues on small instances or they will not have good network reach--milia, admin@fabio @aral