#blahajzone — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blahajzone, aggregated by home.social.
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I think I might try blajaj.zone for my alt; any like, weirdness I need to know?
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The New Official 196 Matrix Space! (also rule)
https://matrix.to/#/#196-Blahaj:chat.blahaj.zone
Hello everyone, we’re happy to announce that going forward the 196 matrix space will be migrating to blahaj.zone. The link above will take you to the new space, and it has also been linked in all the old rooms. We were experiencing some issues due to the rooms in the old space being older versions and so an upgrade was necessary. We’re sorry for any inconveniences, but we feel this change will be better for everybody in the end.
We are experiencing some difficulties with some people having issues joining the new space which we are attempting to resolve, but it might take a little while.
Also, meow meow meowmeowmeow
yours truly, Jorunn -
Thanks to our wonderful @supakaity, Blahaj Zone is now running on an updated version of Sharkey!
This comes with a lot of performance improvements, so hopefully things will be a little bit smoother for everyone!
#sharkey #blahajZone #fediverse -
It seems like #blahajzone is having issues... I left a note to the admins in the instance channel for that
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I've been meaning to do a "State of the Shark" post for a while, and go through and explain some of the history and important moments that blahaj.zone has been through. For those of you who have been here for a while, you know it got a bit rough at points, and I want to take the chance to explain some of what happened.
I joined the fediverse in April 2022, around 6 months before the big twitter exodus in November 2022.
I fell in love with what I perceived to be the freedom of instances to create safe spaces for trans folk that had been harassed on twitter (At the time, I didn't have an awareness of how that inclusion doesn't always extend to trans folk that don't have white privilege)
I was talking to a friend @supakaity (well, friend at the time. Now we're partners, together with @internutter) and she said that she was planning on spinning up a fediverse instance. Kaity would supply the technical skills, and I would bring my community building and development experience and be "front of house". We did some brain storming, and came up with several names centered on blåhaj, because we wanted the instance to be focused on trans and gender diverse folk, without being specifically restricted to trans users. And so, in late November 2022, blahaj.zone was born.
Initially, we tried Misskey, mostly because I hated the Mastodon interface and wanted something prettier. But Misskey has very little documentation in english, and not much usage outside of Japan. At the time, there weren't many Misskey forks, with FoundKey and Calckey being the main options.
We had a look at Calckey, and decided to go with it. It had a small but active development team, and several instances already running it. And so we went live with Calckey. Kaity, being Kaity, would listen to some of my frustrations around usability, and started to expand the feature set of Calckey. Many of these fixes got pushed back to Calckey main, but not all of them. Those that were not pushed up to Calckey stayed in use on blahaj.zone though, and eventually we named our little soft fork of Calckey "Hajkey" (pronounced Hi-Key).
Around this time, Calckey was starting to get traction, and we were starting to get users who would join, just to try out some of the features that Kaity was working on. And for a while, all was good.
But for reasons that don't belong in this post, we eventually fell out of step with the Calckey development team and decided to go our own way. When Calckey rebranded as Firefish, we formally parted ways.
But that left us a dilemma. We did not want to move to the Firefish software base, as it was moving in technical directions that we didn't want to go. And we couldn't stay on our version of Calckey/Hajkey, as some of the bugs were show stoppers. So we had to look at alternatives, and decided to rebase Hajkey off of Iceshrimp.
And then Kaity got in to a really bad accident. Concussion, broken jaw, and an injury to her arm that even now, still hasn't been resolved. So blahaj.zone entered limbo. We were partially rebased on ice-shrimp, but without the chance to fully integrate all of the Hajkey features, and with federation bugs and issues. The instance was up and running, but it was wounded, and the task of updating it seemed impossible, especially whilst recovering from a major accident.
And that's how we existed for many months...
Ultimately, we made the decision to rebase again, this time on Sharkey, but even then, the work of implementing all of the Hajkey specific changes was huge, and so, we made the decision to let Hajkey go, and move to vanilla Sharkey.
And here we are now, running Sharkey, and with the instance humming again! I've made Kaity promise to try and not end up creating a huge workload for herself by re-creating the Hajkey features as Hajkey, so our hope is that over time, we will add at least some of them to Sharkey itself. That way, every Sharkey update will not involve a day of code merging from Kaity.
As much as I miss some of our old features, I am so much happier to have blahaj.zone buzzing and alive again!
Thank you to everyone, and here's to a strong future!
:blahaj_is_fine: :BlahajSpin: :Blobhaj_Ani_Hophop: :Blobhaj_Heart_Trans: :Blobhaj_Thanks_Wow:
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This time tomorrow a friend and I will be checking into our accommodation for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.
We're marching with Trans Pride Australia. We're float number 5 this year, so shouldn't be a chore to spot us!
Among the things that TPA runs is Friday Night Social, a weekly video chat with participants from across Australia. It's overseen & hosted by blahaj zone's admins @ada & @supakaity . I'm also a regular host, and some of our BZ🦈 community are regular participants.
The parade is being televised in Australia on ABCTV and ABC iview (you can watch from overseas through a IPTV service or use a VPN to access iview). The coverage starts at 7:30pm AEDT [Saturday 8:30am London, 12:30am San Fran, 3:30am NYC].
Go to https://iview.abc.net.au/ to watch the Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras 2024 in iview (you'll need to register).
#trans #sydneymardigras #sydney #pride #transpride #australia #blahajzone #lgbt #lgbtqia -
Gonna miss local-only posts. They were perfect for moments like this when an instance-wide change had happened and local users want to share settings or other tips.
Anyway #blahajzone folks, reverting to system font gets you something that looks like the IS / FF font rather than the Sharkey / Misskey default. -
Some of my changes:
- Added my ListenBrainz username to the integration located in Profile.
- Reduced the reaction size to small.
- Changed reaction acceptance to All.
- Disabled animations.
- Moved notifications to bottom left and stacking vertically.
- Toggle to use the system's default font. It looks similar to Iceshrimp / Firefish font we had previously, instead of Misskey.
- Enabled the Loading Media Data Saver option.
- Disabled notification sounds.
- Added Lookup, Antennas, Lists, and Pages; removed Achievements from Navigation bar. Reordered the menu.
#blahajzone #hajkey #Sharkey -
My first post since blahajzone migrated to Sharkey, yay! 🦈 🦈
#blahajzone #hajkey #Sharkey -
So there's actually a big problem with local-only posts federating out to other *key instances atm. I can confirm that folks on #Firefish social have been able to view and reply to local-only channel posts here on #blahajzone where we use #Hajkey still on #Calckey v14. Can also confirm that I can see local only posts on FF social made 6 days ago. I'm able to see a local only post of @[email protected] posted on #Iceshrimp when in guest mode, but won't get it in when I place url in search. Also local-only posts on #Misskey can be seen by Iceshrimp and Hajkey users, so assume that FF too. Please don't post anything local-only atm that you don't want to be discoverable. What a mess.
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#introduction
It's about time I get my intro on this main account
Hi #blahajzone , I'm Serena! My tagline is:Blonde Twintail Princess with a Tiny Crown!
I'm #transfem , #gynesexual , and currently a university student who is double majoring in Journalism and Political Science.
I'm into #tech , #gaming , #journalism , #politics , #sports , and of course, #lgbt culture!
My favorite animal is foxes... I love them so much I call myself a foxgirl :blobfox:
On my main computer, I'm always using some flavor of #ArchLinux !
I'd love for you to mention and chat with me here on the #fediverse ! -
Geez, I feel like I'm getting #mastodonlol flashbacks all over again with #blahajzone with the slow, spotty, unreliable access to the server. Might have to consider #migration
If anyone has any thoughts on #misskey or #iceshrimp , let me know! (Server suggestions appreciated as well) -
Tbh, I'm on a proactively moderated server that has preemptively kept a lot of the worst folks from being able to reach us queers here, and the feedback from a handful of black users here is that #blahajzone has also been generally been harassment free in comparison to other servers they've been on.
Imo, it's actually not to hard as a queer or trans person to find #servers on the #fediverse that will protect you from harassment, but that it is harder to find servers that will also protect indigenous, black, Asian users from racist harassment. And too many queer white folks get a free pass for ignorance tbh, a privilege that many of us have had for far too long.
It's much the same on #Bluesky where I haven't been harassed for being #queer and trans - again there's large communities and plenty of allies - but anti-black racism has been in the spotlight again recently and the devs called out for lagging behind on safety and moderation features that bigots exploit for harassment campaigns.
Far too many fediverse projects are led by men, mostly white men, who are lionised, promoted and financed by another layer of mostly white men. They ultimately get the veto on minority protections.
#Mastodon #Firefish #Iceshrimp #FindAServer #FediverseSafety
RE: https://firefish.social/notes/9hs7vrern5ptmu66 -
A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined #blahajzone the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!
Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.
Our server runs a fork of Calckey that we call #Hajkey (pron. hi-key). We'll soon be merging our code with #Iceshrimp. A summary of the features unique to Hajkey.
Here's the link to our Community Documents such as our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.
If you're wanting to migrate from a #Mastodon account, here's a step by step instruction guide for moving to Blahaj.zone.
We also have a #Lemmy server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a #kbin server that's soon to be open, for those looking for #Reddit - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.
I'm neither a mod nor admin here, but am happy to help if I can. I've written this about how the five main timelines work and this popular post about #Antennas.
If you haven't already, please take the time to post an #introduction. Here's my #intro here and I've attached a #selfie with #eyecontact
I look forward to getting to know some of you more.
Kind love xx
Jo (she/her/they/them)
#Fediverse #FindAServer #Migration #Feditips #Welcome #Firefish #Misskey -
Currrent #trending communities on Blåhaj Lemmy are: Calckey, Friendica, GameDev, TTRPGs, Gone Wild Trans (NSFW), and the instance main group.
You can also follow and post via:
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
and @[email protected]
#Lemmy #Reddit #BlahajZone #Calckey #Friendica #GameDev #TTRPG #GoneWildTrans
#Fediverse #kBin -
Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.
It appears that @[email protected] has been thinking about whether large - and harder to moderate - servers are even a good idea for the #Fediverse.
The last thing you should take from the closure home.social is that you should just move to mastodon.social to avoid being on a server that closes, or is too big to fail, or be defederated. I think that all bets will soon be off and there's going to be some large realignments in instances, in clients, and in federation when #Meta et al arrive.
Now if you're looking for a small (currently ~290), well-moderated instance with a strong queer vibe then perhaps #blahajzone might be a good fit? Why not talk to some of us here and find out?
Run by @ada & @supakaity, we're a trans-led instance for queer folx and allies, that has a deliberate queer vibe. We're safety conscious and we're trying to build more user safety tools. We're well-federated and our members have access to relays such as relay.gay.
You can import your #Mastodon content to our servers, just remember to download your Mastodon archive (Settings > Import/Export) before you migrate. You'll be able to import your posts once you've migrated.
Here's how to move (with images) from #Mastodon to #blahajzone
This is our list of silenced and suspended servers.
Our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy can be found here.
Our admins are located in Australia and our server is located in the U.S.
We run #Hajkey, a soft fork (see features) of #Calckey. Maintained by @supakaity
#FindAServer #FindAnInstance #JoinCalckey -
Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.
It appears that @[email protected] has been thinking about whether large - and harder to moderate - servers are even a good idea for the #Fediverse.
The last thing you should take from the closure home.social is that you should just move to mastodon.social to avoid being on a server that closes, or is too big to fail, or be defederated. I think that all bets will soon be off and there's going to be some large realignments in instances, in clients, and in federation when #Meta et al arrive.
Now if you're looking for a small (currently ~290), well-moderated instance with a strong queer vibe then perhaps #blahajzone might be a good fit? Why not talk to some of us here and find out?
Run by @ada & @supakaity, we're a trans-led instance for queer folx and allies, that has a deliberate queer vibe. We're safety conscious and we're trying to build more user safety tools. We're well-federated and our members have access to relays such as relay.gay.
You can import your #Mastodon content to our servers, just remember to download your Mastodon archive (Settings > Import/Export) before you migrate. You'll be able to import your posts once you've migrated.
Here's how to move (with images) from #Mastodon to #blahajzone
This is our list of silenced and suspended servers.
Our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy can be found here.
Our admins are located in Australia and our server is located in the U.S.
We run #Hajkey, a soft fork (see features) of #Calckey. Maintained by @supakaity
#FindAServer #FindAnInstance #JoinCalckey -
Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.
It appears that @[email protected] has been thinking about whether large - and harder to moderate - servers are even a good idea for the #Fediverse.
The last thing you should take from the closure home.social is that you should just move to mastodon.social to avoid being on a server that closes, or is too big to fail, or be defederated. I think that all bets will soon be off and there's going to be some large realignments in instances, in clients, and in federation when #Meta et al arrive.
Now if you're looking for a small (currently ~290), well-moderated instance with a strong queer vibe then perhaps #blahajzone might be a good fit? Why not talk to some of us here and find out?
Run by @ada & @supakaity, we're a trans-led instance for queer folx and allies, that has a deliberate queer vibe. We're safety conscious and we're trying to build more user safety tools. We're well-federated and our members have access to relays such as relay.gay.
You can import your #Mastodon content to our servers, just remember to download your Mastodon archive (Settings > Import/Export) before you migrate. You'll be able to import your posts once you've migrated.
Here's how to move (with images) from #Mastodon to #blahajzone
This is our list of silenced and suspended servers.
Our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy can be found here.
Our admins are located in Australia and our server is located in the U.S.
We run #Hajkey, a soft fork (see features) of #Calckey. Maintained by @supakaity
#FindAServer #FindAnInstance #JoinCalckey -
Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.
It appears that @[email protected] has been thinking about whether large - and harder to moderate - servers are even a good idea for the #Fediverse.
The last thing you should take from the closure home.social is that you should just move to mastodon.social to avoid being on a server that closes, or is too big to fail, or be defederated. I think that all bets will soon be off and there's going to be some large realignments in instances, in clients, and in federation when #Meta et al arrive.
Now if you're looking for a small (currently ~290), well-moderated instance with a strong queer vibe then perhaps #blahajzone might be a good fit? Why not talk to some of us here and find out?
Run by @ada & @supakaity, we're a trans-led instance for queer folx and allies, that has a deliberate queer vibe. We're safety conscious and we're trying to build more user safety tools. We're well-federated and our members have access to relays such as relay.gay.
You can import your #Mastodon content to our servers, just remember to download your Mastodon archive (Settings > Import/Export) before you migrate. You'll be able to import your posts once you've migrated.
Here's how to move (with images) from #Mastodon to #blahajzone
This is our list of silenced and suspended servers.
Our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy can be found here.
Our admins are located in Australia and our server is located in the U.S.
We run #Hajkey, a soft fork (see features) of #Calckey. Maintained by @supakaity
#FindAServer #FindAnInstance #JoinCalckey -
Everyone: home.social will close down on June, 16th 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.
It appears that @[email protected] has been thinking about whether large - and harder to moderate - servers are even a good idea for the #Fediverse.
The last thing you should take from the closure home.social is that you should just move to mastodon.social to avoid being on a server that closes, or is too big to fail, or be defederated. I think that all bets will soon be off and there's going to be some large realignments in instances, in clients, and in federation when #Meta et al arrive.
Now if you're looking for a small (currently ~290), well-moderated instance with a strong queer vibe then perhaps #blahajzone might be a good fit? Why not talk to some of us here and find out?
Run by @ada & @supakaity, we're a trans-led instance for queer folx and allies, that has a deliberate queer vibe. We're safety conscious and we're trying to build more user safety tools. We're well-federated and our members have access to relays such as relay.gay.
You can import your #Mastodon content to our servers, just remember to download your Mastodon archive (Settings > Import/Export) before you migrate. You'll be able to import your posts once you've migrated.
Here's how to move (with images) from #Mastodon to #blahajzone
This is our list of silenced and suspended servers.
Our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy can be found here.
Our admins are located in Australia and our server is located in the U.S.
We run #Hajkey, a soft fork (see features) of #Calckey. Maintained by @supakaity
#FindAServer #FindAnInstance #JoinCalckey -
Hey friends, #BlahajZone piqued my interest, so here's a new #introuction post!
I am an #Asexual #Queer artist, game developer, and gamer. I love relaxed sandbox games like #TheSims3, #AnimalCrossing, and #Minecraft.
Outside of gaming I am mostly obsessed with Twilight, JoJo, She-Ra, and Nintendo. Basically... I like gay nerdy shit. :Blobhaj_Heart_Rainbow:
As it usually is with new alts, I'm still unsure what instances I want to be active on, so I'm not sure how often I'll post yet! But thanks for having me. -
Heya! This is a note to let you know that I plan to move to @[email protected] relatively soon. I will move when Calckey implements its upcoming #mastodon #API
Wanna get a headstart? Follow me on #blahajzone now!
I also encourage any other #mastodonlol holdouts to move there with me, especially if youre #trans!
#mastomigrate #findaninstance -
Heya! This is a note to let you know that I plan to move to @[email protected] relatively soon. I will move when Calckey implements its upcoming #mastodon #API
Wanna get a headstart? Follow me on #blahajzone now!
I also encourage any other #mastodonlol holdouts to move there with me, especially if youre #trans!
#mastomigrate #findaninstance -
Heya! This is a note to let you know that I plan to move to @[email protected] relatively soon. I will move when Calckey implements its upcoming #mastodon #API
Wanna get a headstart? Follow me on #blahajzone now!
I also encourage any other #mastodonlol holdouts to move there with me, especially if youre #trans!
#mastomigrate #findaninstance -
Heya! This is a note to let you know that I plan to move to @[email protected] relatively soon. I will move when Calckey implements its upcoming #mastodon #API
Wanna get a headstart? Follow me on #blahajzone now!
I also encourage any other #mastodonlol holdouts to move there with me, especially if youre #trans!
#mastomigrate #findaninstance -
I've just started playing around with #Channels which look like they are instance-locked #forums on the #Calckey platform. Cool thing about them is you can #follow them and posts will appear in your home #timeline just like when following another user's account.
Here's some initial screenshots so you can see what I'm talking about. #fediverse #feditips #microfedi
1. Channels are found in the #Calckey sidebar.
2. Here's a list of channels on #blahajzone.
3. Inside "Jo Channel" on #blahajzone. Anyone from the instance can post, posts are #localonly.
4. If you #follow the channel, posts appear in your home & local timelines like so. -
@Clementine ive been considering Blahaj.zone which is a Calckey instance. Its run by 2 transfems, is small (~90 users), and mastodon api support is coming soon. Because of the last part though, I'm sticking to mastodon.lol until that api is made.
#mastodonlol #blahajzone #findaninstance #mastodon #calckey #fediverse -
@Clementine ive been considering Blahaj.zone which is a Calckey instance. Its run by 2 transfems, is small (~90 users), and mastodon api support is coming soon. Because of the last part though, I'm sticking to mastodon.lol until that api is made.
#mastodonlol #blahajzone #findaninstance #mastodon #calckey #fediverse -
@Clementine ive been considering Blahaj.zone which is a Calckey instance. Its run by 2 transfems, is small (~90 users), and mastodon api support is coming soon. Because of the last part though, I'm sticking to mastodon.lol until that api is made.
#mastodonlol #blahajzone #findaninstance #mastodon #calckey #fediverse -
How to migrate from mastodon.lol to blahaj.zone
1) Create your new account at blahaj.zone
2) Go to the migration settings on blahaj.zone They can be found at Settings >> Other Settings >> Migration.
3) In the "move to this account from an older account" field, enter in your mastodon.lol account (example @[email protected]) and save
4) Go to mastodon.lol migration settings. I think the URL for mastodon.lol is https://mastodon.lol/settings/migration
5) Fill in the handle of your blahaj.zone account (example: @[email protected]) and then your mastodon.lol password).
6) Press "Move Followers" and the magic will happen
#mastodon #calckey #migration #microfedi #blahajzone #mastodonlol #feditips -
blahaj.zone is a #trans -run #calckey instance with strong #fediblock rules against Nazis, TERFs, sexual exploitation, etc., but permissive in terms of (CWed) NSFW content [my 🔞 alt is @[email protected] 😅]. #nsfw #lewdposting #adultcontent #mastodonlol #migration #microfedi #blahajzone
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Finally seeing what's behind mastodon.lol blowing up. Holy shit Nathan. 🤦♀️
If you're looking for a new home blahaj.zone is a small trans-friendly #calckey instance run by #trans women @ada and @supakaity #mastodonlol #Mastodon #migration #microfedi #blahajzone -
Hey mastodon.lol folks, blahaj.zone is a small instance that is open for signups. We run on #calckey which is has a different UI than #Mastodon and some other differences. We also have seamless migration from Mastodon instances built in, just like you're used to. Hope some of you might join us. Jo xx (formerly @[email protected])
#mastodonlol #migration #microfedi #trans #blahaj #blahajzone